514 Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 



States to participate in such fisheries, Giglioli's time was 

 fully occupied. Indeed it is surprising how, with so much 

 outside work in addition to his every-day Museum duties — for 

 these he never neglected — he yet found time to write so much 

 as he did. During the last two years he was also occupied 

 on a work which would probably have proved of the greatest 

 value, being a descriptive Catalogue of the Vertebrates of 

 the Florence Museum. Unfortunately it is far from being 

 completed. 



In the early part of this notice I have alluded to Giglioli as 

 being not only a good Ornithologist, but also a first-class all- 

 round Zoologist. I may now add that although Ornithology 

 was his favourite branch of Zoology, he was quite competent 

 in other branches as well, and as an Ichthyologist he was 

 undoubtedly one of the best authorities in Europe. 



A strict binomialist and non-splitter, he entertained very 

 decided views on the subject of nomenclature, and did not 

 hesitate to express them should occasion require it. He 

 was, however, willing to accept triuomialism in the case of 

 well-defined subspecies or geographical races, provided that 

 this was applied solely to such subspecies or races, and not 

 to what he called the mother-species as well. This is, more 

 or less, in accordance with the ideas expressed by me in my 

 work on Tunisian Birds. 



As an Anthropologist and Ethnologist Giglioli bore a high 

 reputation, and in addition to being Vice-President of the 

 Italian Anthropological Society, he was an Honorary Fellow of 

 our own Royal Anthropological Institute, as well as of other 

 similar Societies on the Continent. His literary contribu- 

 tions to the Italian ' Archivio d'Antropologia e FEtnologia ' 

 were many and varied, while he also wrote occasionally for 

 the London periodical ' Man ' and the Leiden c Intern. 

 Archiv fur Ethnographie." 



An interesting work was published by Giglioli in 1901 

 entitled " Material for the Study of the Stone Age from 

 Prehistoric down to Modern Times. " He devoted himself 

 more especially to the study of prehistoric and aboriginal 

 races, as well as of little-known and uncivilized modern 



