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Society transferred its offices to Leicester Square, he entered its employ on 

 the same day as the late Mr. G. E. Waterhouse, and assisted in arranging 

 the Museum and making skeletons for the latter. Dr. J. E. Gray often 

 visited the Society's Museum, and ultimately wrote to Mr. Gerrard 

 offering him a post in the British Museum. This he accepted, entering 

 the service in April 1841, when Sir Henry Ellis was the Principal 

 Librarian, and the national collection was stored in Montague House, 

 Bloomsbury. Here the collections were arranged in the various rooms 

 in cases standing along the centre, after the manner of the present Bird 

 Gallery at South Kensington. He witnessed the demolition of this 

 historic building and the gradual development of the great British 

 Museum at Bloomsbury under Panizzi, as well as the ultimate removal of 

 the natural history collections to their present home in the Museum in the 

 Cromwell Eoad. His early duties consisted in assisting Dr. Gray in the 

 arrangement of the old British Museum, and especially looking after the 

 collections of Mammalia, Eeptiles and Fish, and keeping the registers. 

 Mr. Gerrard, sen., is still hale and hearty at the age of 95. 



Gestro (Prof. R.). 



*See Genoa Museum. 



Getting (B. H. F.). 



35 birds from British Guiana. Purchased. [97. 10. IG, 5-39.] 



Gibson (Ernest). 



114 birds from Argentina. Presented. [1903. 12. 18, 1-114.] 

 This collection has been described in the " Ibis " for 1879 and 1880- 



Gifford {Lord). 



29 birds from Tibet. Presented. [51. 7. 2, 1-29.] The types of 

 Syrrhaptes tibetanus and Montifringilla hsematopygia (cf. Gould, P.Z.S., 

 1850, p. 92 ; 1851, p. 115) are included in this collection. 



Lord Giflford was the elder brother of the celebrated 9th Marquis of 

 Tweeddale (q-v.). 



Giglioli {Professor H. H.), Director of the Boyal Museum of 

 Natural History at Florence. 

 40 birds from Italy. Presented. [84. 7. 12, 1-25 ; 86. 12. 28, 1-15.] 

 Dr. Giglioli has done a great work in forming a museum of the 



animals indigenous to the Italian Peninsula and islands. 



He has written some important works on Italian Ornithology. 



Gillespie (R). 



A specimen of the St. Helena Sand-Plover {JEgialitis sanctie-helense) 

 and two eggs. Presented. [79. 6. 10, 1-3.] 



Gillett (Fred.). 



98 birds from Somali Laud. Presented. [96. 4. 18, 1-98.] 

 31 birds from Persia. Presented. [96. 12. 21, 1-31.] 

 Mr. Gillett accompanied Dr. Donaldson Smith on his first celebrated 

 expedition to Lake Eudolf, but was summoned home on the death of his 

 father, and was not able to go the entire journey. He afterwards under- 

 took an expedition into Persia by himself. Both collections given by 

 him to the Museum contained specimens of much interest. 



Gladstone (Hugh E.). 



8 specimens of Black Game in changes of plumage, from Dumfries- 

 shire. Presented. [1902. 9. 2, 1-8.] 



33 nestlings and embryos of various birds. Presented. [1903. 7. 31, 1-33.] 



