Marquis Giacomo Doria was an Italian

Italy

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 naturalist

Natural history

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 and politician

Politician

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He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa

Genoa

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 in 1867, and director from then until his death. It is now named for him as the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria

Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria

Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria, in Italian, Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria is a natural history museum in Genoa, Italy. It is named for the naturalist Giacomo Doria....

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He collected in Iran

Iran

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 with Filippo de Filippi

Filippo de Filippi

Filippo de Filippi was an Italian doctor, traveler and zoologist.Filippo De Filippi was born in Pavia. He succeeded Giuseppe Gené as professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Turin...

 (1862–63) and in Myanmar

Myanmar

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 with Odoardo Beccari

Odoardo Beccari

Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...

 (1865–66). He was an avid entomologist. In 1891 he was elected President of the Royal Italian Geographical Society.

Three animals are named after him, Doria's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus dorianus, Doria's Goshawk

Doria's Goshawk

Doria's Goshawk, Megatriorchis doriae, is a raptor, the only member of the genus Megatriorchis.-Description:At up to 69 cm long, it is among the biggest hawks in the broad sense. It is greyish-brown with a black-barred crown and upperparts, whitish underparts, a black streak behind the eye,...

 Megatriorchis doriae and Doria's Slug Limax doriae.