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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 1676307" data-attributes="member: 24811">The name baroli was published validly by Bonaparte, who is therefore the author to whom the name is attributed in nomenclature, but who indeed did not coin it himself. Bonaparte simply used an unpublished name that had been devised a couple of decades earlier by Franco Andrea Bonelli. (OD: <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99025b.image.f204.langEN" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99025b.image.f204.langEN</a> )Bonelli was a zoology professor and curator at the museum of natural history at the University of Turin, and a member of the "Classe di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche" of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. During the same period, Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo was the director of the "Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche, e Filologiche" of the very same Academy. There were only a few tens of Academicians residing in Turin and they certainly all knew each other. Although not a naturalist himself, Falletti di Barolo presided meetings of the Academy where Bonelli made communications. Bonelli's successor at the University, Giuseppe Gené, in his <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriedellaacca37real#page/n330/mode/1up" target="_blank">"Elogio storico di Franco Andrea Bonelli"</a>, made clear that Barolo greatly admired him. (After his death, Barolo even cared, at his own expense, that Bonelli's body was moved from the communal area of the city cemetery where he had been buried, into a private grave.)The connection between Bonelli and Barolo is very clear and there can be no doubt that the shearwater was named after Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo.(OTOH, this may have been a simple dedication to a colleague who was not a naturalist--i.e., it seems quite possible that Barolo never actually did anything in relation to the bird itself. In fact "Bonelli's Shearwater" might arguably make more sense than any name based on Barolo...)</blockquote>

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