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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Henry Hillyer Giglioli, an Honorary Fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologist's Union, died in Florence, Italy, December 16, 1909, in the 

 64th year of his age, having been born in London, June 13, 1845. ^ His 

 father was Dr. Guiseppe Giglioli, who while a political exile from Italy 

 sojourned for a while in Edinburgh, and later in London where he married 

 an English lady. Miss Hillyer. The younger Giglioli was thus partly of 

 English descent. In 1848 the family returned to Italy, but in 1861 the 

 son, then sixteen years of age, " was sent by the Italian Government to 

 study in London, and selected the School of Mines for that purpose." 

 During the three years spent in London he made the acquaintance of 

 many of the leading English naturalists. He returned to Italy and in 

 1864 took his degree at the University of Pisa. The following year he 

 received the appointment of assistant naturalist, under Professor De 

 Filippi, to the Italian Government scientific expedition around the world 

 in the war-ship 'Magenta', and upon the death of De Filippi from cholera 

 early in the voyage he succeeded to the "command of the expedition at 

 the early age of 22, but, with his usual energy and resourcefulness, suc- 

 ceeded in carrying out his work satisfactorily, and returned in three years' 

 time, after having circumnavigated the globe." His account of the 

 expedition, published in 1876, forms a volume of over one thousand 

 pages, illustrated by numerous plates and maps. In 1869 he published, 

 with Salvadori, a paper in 'The Ibis' (1869, pp. 61-68) entitled 'On some 

 new Procellariidge collected during a Voyage around the World in 1865-68,' 

 in which the authors described six new species of Petrels. In a second 

 paper published in 'The Ibis' the following year (1870, pp. 185-187) a 

 new genus and two new species of birds are described by the same authors. 

 His ornithological report of this voyage appeared as a separate work in 

 1870 (Svo, Florence, pp. 96). 



In 1869 he was made Instructor in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy 

 of Vertebrates at the Royal Institute in Florence, a position he held un- 

 interruptedly for forty years, or until his decease, becoming, in 1874, Pro- 

 fessor of this department and Director of the Zoological Museum. In 

 1876 he "laid the foundation of the fine collection of Italian vertebrate 

 animals, now the pride of the Florence Zoological Museum." His sub- 

 sequent years were devoted to research, chiefly in the Museum, but varied 

 by numerous expeditions in southern Europe, including deep-sea explora- 

 tions in the Mediterranean which established the existence of an abysmal 

 fauna in this inland sea. 



1 This notice is based primarily on the 'Biographical Notice of the late Professor 

 Giglioh,' by his intimate friend Joseph I. S. Whitaker, pubUshed in 'The Ibis,' 

 July, 1910, pp. 537-548. 



