Museo Ciencias Naturales Longinos Navas 1

Hey Longinos Navás Ferrer I was born in 1858 in Cabasés a town in Tarragona located on the slopes of Monsant between Pinares Olivos and Lides From a very young age I had an restless nature I finished high school at just 14 years old and in 1872 I began my university studies in Law and ecclesiastical studies in the city of Barcelona Three years later at the age of 17 I decided to enter the Jesuit novitiate Despite the suppression of the Jesuits in Spain following the September Revolution of 1878 To achieve that goal I had to travel secretly hidden on top of a car among the cargo It is covered by a tarp to reach Chateau d'Isette in southern France But the times were changing and after the company was authorized to return to Spain I was able to go back in 1877 with my colleagues To continue my career at the Monastery of Santa María de Beruela The years passed and I completed my studies in 1890 My first destination as a Jesuit priest was the Salvador College in Zaragoza Since my beginnings in Zaragoza in 1892 already 34 years old I was in charge of the Natural History Museum of the College Taught classes in Natural Sciences Agriculture and Cosmology Physics Chemistry Physiology and Hygiene Theodicy and French However I devoted all the time allowed by my teaching duties to studying nature Whenever I could I left school for my fieldwork such as collecting insects lichens and plants for my herbariums In 1899 I spent two years in Madrid where people like Ignacio Bolívar an entomologist and founder of the Spanish Society of Natural History were They shaped my way of seeing science Again in Zaragoza in 1902 along with a group of more than 80 naturalists We founded the Aragonese Society of Natural Sciences carrying out countless activities and publishing a bulletin with the results of our work At that stage of my life at 45 years old I had something pending to obtain a university degree in Sciences I started the corresponding studies He completed his bachelor's exams in the Natural Sciences section in September 1904 It was the passport that allowed me to move freely in the scientific world In 1905 I was the only Spanish delegate At the International Botanical Congress held in Vienna where the revision of the Botanical Nomenclature Code was discussed From those meetings I learned that complete freedom of scientific discussio It admirably harmonizes with the courtesy and respect that should be shown to opponents where personal or collective ideas are strongly supported valuing reasons over voices Where in the end each person cast their vote spontaneously and according to their conscience After hearing the reasons both for and against that were presented In my years devoted to scientific work I investigated various fields such as geology paleontology or biology and I interacted with other scientists of the time like Ignacio Bolívar Lucas Mallada Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Ascensio Rodina José Pardo Sastrón or Pío Fontquer My great interest in natural sciences always led me to excursions in various regions both in Spain and abroad I have been able to know study and understand branches of science such as botany and zoology The circumstances of the civil war escalated And I should have gone to Girona where in December 1938 I was able to stay at the Sisters of the Poor On the 24th the day before Christmas I suffered a cerebral embolism and gave my soul to God seven days later At the age of 80 What you are about to see is the result of my activities as a naturalist over all this time