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THE Committee appointed by the Royal Academy of the Lincei in Rome at the request of H.E. the Minister of Naval Affairs, to see that the best possible use in the interests of science be made of the natural history specimens collected by officers of the Royal Italian Navy, wishes to make known to all students of biology that rich material for study, consisting of a certain number of plants and extensive collections of animals of nearly all classes, is at present deposited at the Zoological Station at Naples. This material has all been collected by the officers of the Royal Navy, principally by the Vittor Pisani in a recent voyage round the world, and by other Italian men-of-war in the Red Sea and the Ægean Sea. These collections have been preserved by the best and most modern methods, and can be used for histological and morphological researches, in accordance with the actual requirements of science, as well as for systematic and faunistic investigations. The Committee places this rich material at the disposal of the men of science of all countries who will ask to take part in its illustration, either to complete monographs in course, or for monographical works or for special research on any organic system of a given group.
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Italian Aid to Biological Research. Nature 33, 52 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033052a0
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