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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 1676264" data-attributes="member: 31036">Carlo Tancredi Falletti was Marquis di Barolo.  Barolo is  a town in the Piemont. Falletti jumped over to Napoleon's side early.   SO Barolo is a town in Piedmont where there are no shearwaters.  So Barolo's does not make sense, for a geographical place name.  Barolo's as the possessive for the family name of Carlo Falletti does not make sense either.  In April 1810, George Vat was sent to Turin by the French government to reorganize the University of Turin and begin its fusion with the Impériale University founded by Napoleon. Vat was very impressed by Bonelli’s knowledge. Vat encouraged him to further his knowledge by coming to follow courses at the Natural History Museum in Paris.Bonelli took this advice so as obtain a professor’s chair in the new university. In September 1810, he arrived in Paris.In 1811, Bonelli was finally named professor of zoology at the University of Turin and keeper of the natural history museum of zoology. During his time at the university, he formed one of the largest ornithilogical collections in Europe.In 1811, Bonelli wrote a Catalogue of the Birds of Piedmont, in which he described 262 species.</blockquote>