Reperti delle colonie italiane nel Museo di Zoologia dell’Università di Modena

The link between the citizens of Modena and the Zoology Museum of the local University was particularly strong from the second half of the 19th century up to the first decades of the 20th century, as witnessed by numerous finds presented by travellers from Modena. Besides local specimens, there are several exotic collections that were put together during journeys and sojourns overseas. The finds coming from Italian Eastern Africa and Libya were mostly sent by military men. This study takes into account the collections of Vertebrates (Reptiles, Birds and Mammals) hunted in Eritrea in 1892-1894 by lieutenant of the Bersaglieri corps Ettore Martini and by Dr. Guido Corni when he was Governor of Italian Somaliland (1928-1931).