Some 600 rare books of Spanish naturalist and speleologist Joaquim Mateu donated to Tunisia

Some 400 books on animal biology will be donated to the National Library of Entomology and other 200 books on prehistory will be given to the Tunisian Association of History and Archaeology, based in Dar al-Achouria in Tunis. It  is the collection of the Spanish naturalist, entomologist and speleologist Joaquim Mateu (1921-2015) presented by his son Giuliano Mateu during an official ceremony held Thursday at the headquarters of the National Heritage Institute (INP). Through this initiative “I honoured the will of my father who had been all his life fascinated…