Biographical Notice of the lute Prof. Giglioli. 539 



Henry received his early instructions at Genoa and Pavia. 

 Iu the year 1861, on his father being appointed to a 

 professorship at Pisa, under the new Italian Rule, young 

 Giglioli, then sixteen years of age, was sent by the Italian 

 Government to study in London, and selected, the School 

 of Mines for that purpose, as having thej most able 

 lecturers of the day. During the three years he spent in 

 London he made good use of his time, acquiring the solid, 

 grounding which formed the basis of the profound scientific 

 knowledge which was to serve him so well in after years. 

 Attending most of the important scientific meetings and 

 lectures in London, notably those given by Huxley, whose 

 work on Comparative Anatomy he afterwards translated into 

 Italian, Giglioli lost no opportunity of improving his mind, 

 and, at the same time, of cultivating the acquaintance of the 

 best Naturalists and other eminent men of the day, such as 

 Darwin, Owen, Wallace, Lyell, Tyndall and Hooker. Among 

 his more intimate friends, besides Huxley, may be mentioned 

 the two Lankesters, Forbes, Sclater, Sharpe, Giinther, 

 Seebohm, Swinhoe and Yule. 



I have before me, at the present moment, an interesting 

 little document, kindly placed at my disposal by Madame 

 Giglioli, which shows the keen interest in Natural Science 

 evinced by Giglioli and some of his friends even at a very 

 early age. The document, which bears the emblem of a 

 triangle, with the three words Truth, Love, Perseverance 

 inscribed within it, followed by the names of fifteen great 

 Naturalists and men of Science, enumerates the " Articles of 

 Faith " binding upon those belonging to a brotherhood 

 formed for the advancement of Natural Science. It is undated, 

 but must have been drawn up between 1861 and 1861, and 

 is signed by Edwin Ray Lankester and Henry Giglioli. 



It may at once be stated that Giglioli was not only a good 

 Ornithologist, but also a first-class all-round Zoologist, 

 besides being distinguished in other branches of Science, 

 but of this more anon. 



From London Giglioli proceeded to Pisa in order to 

 complete his studies, and in 1864 took his degree at the 



