 He left some preparatory plaster casts to the comune; a museum to house them is under construction.In 1933 an incomplete fossil of "Lariosaurus balsami", a nothosaurid from the Middle Triassic (circa 240 million years ago) of which the first example was discovered at Perledo, some 10 km north of Lierna, was found in a quarry in the "frazione" of Grumo.It is now in the Museo di Storia Naturale in the Palazzo Belgioioso of Lecco.