Giacomo Doria Scientist
Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, herpetologist, and politician.He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his death. It is now named for him as the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria.He collected in Persia with Filippo de Filippi (1862–63) and in Sarawak with Odoardo Beccari (1865–66). He was an avid entomologist. In 1891 he was elected President of the Royal Italian Geographical Society.In the scientific field of herpetology, he described many new species of amphibians and reptiles, including several he described with Wilhelm Peters. He is commemorated in the scientific names of eight reptiles: Agama doriae, Cyclophiops doriae, Enhydris doriae, Gonocephalus doriae, Latastia doriai, Scincella doriae, Stenodactylus doriae, and Tropidonophis doriae.Four other animals are named after him, Doria's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus), Doria's goshawk (Megatriorchis doriae), Doria's cave beetle (Duvalius doriae), and Doria's slug (Limax doriae).In 1891, the Italian explorer Vittorio Bottego named after Doria, the main tributary of the Jubba River, that′s now called Ganale Dorya River.
