Hercules Turati

He purchased natural history specimens and built up a very large private collection of more than 20,000 bird specimens, mostly mounted, which include the now extinct Great Auk.

Along with his brother Ernesto, he also made collections of the nests and eggs of the birds of Lombardy.

[4][5][6] Several species of birds are named after him including Picoides pubescens turati and Laniarius turatii.

A brother, Vittorio Turati was a pioneer photographer who developed a process of printing varying tints called Sincromia or Synchromie.

Some prints made using this process were included in Martorelli's catalogue of Turati's raptor collections.