An analysis of “Hydrophytologiae Regni Neapolitani” (Delle Chiaje, 1829)

2024-01-22T10:22:25+00:00

In the volume “Hydrophytologiae Regni Neapolitani”, published by Delle Chiaje in 1829, 100 species of benthic marine algae of the Gulf of Neaples (Mediterranean Sea, Italy) are described and illustrated with colored images. In this study the marine algae depicted in the 100 plates are analyzed with the goal of identifying them in terms of present-day taxonomy and nomenclature. Of each plate, observations and comments dealing also with taxonomic opinions published by earlier authors on Delle Chiaje’s plates, are also given.

Distant glances: American members of the Gioeni Academy in the nineteenth century

2024-04-01T12:50:23+00:00

The events that bind fourteen partners of the nineteenth century to the Gioeni Academy of Catania are described. In the United States and Europe the scientific and political literature is very rich in information on the personalities aggregated to the Gioeni Academy, from the beginning of its foundation until the end of the 19th century. Unfortunately, their scientific contribution to the cultural life of the Academy was almost nil, limited to exchanges of letters and literature references only, with the exception of the presence of the mathematician B. Peirce, of the geodesist C.A. Schott and of the astronomer J.C. Watson on site (direct meetings with local members of the Gioeni Academy in the astronomical observation stations) during the occasion of the total solar eclipse of December 22nd, 1870, observed in Sicily by American and European scientific expeditions.

Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania

An analysis of “Hydrophytologiae Regni Neapolitani” (Delle Chiaje, 1829)

Distant glances: American members of the Gioeni Academy in the nineteenth century