Ferrante Imperato (1550-1625)
Dell'historia naturale . . .
Naples: C. Vitale, 1599. 12 p. l., 791 p. illus., double plate.

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Naples pharmacist Ferrante Imperato (1550-1625) formed one of Europe’s first natural history research collections. Here, he and his son Francesco show it off to visitors.
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Ernest Ingersoll (1852-1946)
Hand-book to the National Museum, under direction of the Smithsonian Institution
New York, Chicago and Washington: Brentano Brothers, 1886. 110, [28] p. : ill.

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Congress established the United States National Museum in 1879 to house and display the growing collections of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Lorenzo Legati
Museo Cospiano . . .
Bologna: Per G. Monti, 1677. 11 p. l., 532 p. illus., fold. pl., port.

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Marchese Ferdinando Cospi (1606-1686) gave his collection to the city of Bologna in 1657 for the use of scholars.
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Ole Worm (1588-1654)
Museum Wormianum; seu, Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum . . .
Leiden: ex officina Elseviriorum, 1655. 6 p. l., 389, [3] p. illus.

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Ole Worm (1588-1654), a doctor and professor of natural philosophy in Copenhagen, used his collection to teach students.
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