538 Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 



personal friends whom our late members have left behind 

 them, while the unanimous expression of sympathy and 

 esteem evinced by their numerous acquaintances and 

 admirers in the world of science will also tend, in some 

 measure, to mitigate the grief which must be felt at their 

 loss. 



To the rising generation of workers in the field of 

 Ornithology the precious heirloom which has been left us by 

 Giglioli and Sharpe in their numerous published writings 

 will be an inestimable boon, and should serve as an en- 

 couragement and incentive to further and redoubled efforts 

 on their part, in striving to follow the footsteps of the 

 two great men who have gone before them. 



In referring to the loss of both of our late members, and 

 coupling their names together, as I have done, I am perhaps 

 going beyond my province, but the sad coincidence of 

 their having been taken from us within so short a time of 

 each other, added to the friendship and esteem that I have 

 personally entertained for both, must be my excuse for so 

 doing, if I have erred in this respect. 



Meanwhile I gratefully beg to express my recognition of 

 the compliment paid me by the Editors of ' The Ibis ' iti the 

 request that I should write a biographical notice of Professor 

 Giglioli, a charge which I have the more willingly accepted, 

 as affording me an opportunity of rendering a slight tribute 

 to the memory of my late dear friend. 



Professor Henry Hillyer Giglioli was born in London on 

 June 13th, 1845. His father, Dr. Giuseppe Giglioli of 

 Brescello-Emilia, one of the plucky little band of Italian 

 political exiles who sought and found a temporary home in 

 our country, on leaving Italy, first settled in Edinburgh, and 

 later on went to London, where he married an English lady, 

 Miss Hillyer. I may here observe that Giglioli, although a 

 staunch and patriotic Italian, was always proud of his 

 English descent, while Eugland, as well as Italy, has had 

 reason to be proud of him. 



In 1848 the Giglioli family returned to Italy, and here 



