542 Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 



The official announcement has since been made at a com- 

 memoration of the late Prof. Giglioli, held at the Florence 

 Museum on February 2nd of this year. 



Between 1881 and 1883 Giglioli was appointed by the 

 Italian Government to undertake three separate deep-sea 

 explorations in the Mediterranean, and carried out the work 

 most efficiently on board the R.S. 'Washington/ The 

 scientific results obtained during these explorations were 

 published in due course, and the fact of the existence of an 

 abysmal Mediterranean Fauna was made known for the first 

 time, some important discoveries being recorded in the way 

 of new genera and species of fishes, brought to the surface 

 from a depth of 3632 metres. The existence of a deep-sea 

 fauna in the Mediterranean had previously been doubted, 

 and even denied by some competent authorities, in con- 

 sequence of the negative results obtained from the dredging 

 that had been carried out by English and French expeditions. 



In 1884 Giglioli attended the first International Ornitho- 

 logical Congress, held at Vienna, as the representative of 

 Italy, a capacity in which he was present at all subsequent 

 meetings of the kind held in Europe, viz. at Budapest in 

 1891, at Paris in 1900, and in London in 1905. He also 

 represented Italy at the International Conference held in 

 Paris in 1895 for the Protection of Birds. In addition to 

 these as delegate of the Italian Government, he attended 

 various other international and local congresses, Geographical 

 and Ethnological as well as Zoological ; in fact there were few 

 scientific meetings of any importance at which Giglioli was 

 not present. Quite recently he was called to Rome, to 

 give his opinion with regard to the new Game Laws that 

 the Government proposes passing in Italy. 



In 1885, after the Vienna Ornithological Congress, at 

 which meeting it had been decided that each State should 

 institute an ornithological enquiry throughout its dominion, 

 Giglioli was charged to carry out that for Italy, the results 

 bein°- published four years later in an important work of over 

 700 pages, entitled " Report on the results of the Ornitho- 

 logical Enquiry in Italy : Part I. — Avifauna Italica." This 



