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and wish to record their sense of the severe loss which 

 the science of Ornithology has thus experienced. 



"That the Secretary be requested to express to Col. B. 



F. Alexander, and other relatives of Mr. Boyd Alexander, 



full sympathy with them in the sad loss they have 



suffered." 



A vote of thanks to the Zoological Society of London for 



the use of their rooms was unanimously passed and the 



Meeting adjourned. 



After the Meeting the joint Dinner of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Club 

 was held at Pagani's Restaurant, Great Portland Street, 

 and attended by 47 Members and Guests. 



XXV. — Biographical Notice of the late Professor Giglioli. 

 By Joseph I. S. Whitaker, M.B.O.U. 



The close of the year 1909 will be sorrowfully remembered 

 by Ornithologists, and in particular by our Brethren of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union, for the sad loss of two of 

 its most prominent and distinguished members. 



With the death of Prof. Henry Hillyer Giglioli on the 

 16th December, and that of Dr. Richard Bowdler Sharpe on 

 the 25th December, 1909, two brilliant careers in the 

 Ornithological World have been brought abruptly to an end, 

 and two life-long records of industrious and indefatigable 

 work in the cause of science have suddenly been arrested. 



The results of such work, self-imposed and self-denying 

 toil, but undoubtedly a labour of love in both cases, have 

 fortunately been specially rich and full of the highest interest 

 and intrinsic value to our beloved branch of science, and the 

 good deeds that have been accomplished by the two eminent 

 men who have so recently been taken from our midst, while 

 yet in the full vigour of manhood, will live for ever, though 

 the authors are no more. 



The knowledge, nay, the mere thought, of this will 

 assuredly be of comfort to the bereaved relatives and 



