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a great measure oi' success, altliougli iu nuuiy instances we 

 fear his efforts came too late. 



Personally he was a man of (^harminj; clis[)osition, full of 

 thought for others, ever alive to better the lot of the unfor- 

 tunate, and possessed of that kindly sympathy which we 

 always associat;^ with really great men. His attitude to us 

 (luring the Great War was that of intense sympathy and 

 understanding, and in him J<]ngland has lost her best 

 advocate for future policy as well as her best friend 

 amongst the statesmen of the world. 



The Marchese Giacomo Dokia. 



We much regret that it is only quite rcceutly that the 

 ne\vs of the death of the Marchese Doria, which took place 

 so far back as 19 September, 1913, has reached us. He was 

 elected a Foreign Member of the Union so long ago as 1875, 

 and was by many years the doyen of his class. 



Born iu 1840 at Spezia, of the historically celebrated race 

 of the Dorias of Genoa^ Giacomo Doria was educated under 

 jjrivate tutors and at the University of Genoa. From his 

 earliest youth he was a collector and observer in zoology 

 and botany as well as a traveller. In 1862 he accompanied 

 an Italian Mission to Persia with Lessona and Dr. F. de 

 Filippi ; the scientihe results of this journey were published 

 by the latter in his well-known ' Viaggio in Persia.^ Later, 

 in 1865, he undertook with Beccari an expedition to Borneo, 

 and with the collections thus amassed, together with others 

 previously obtained, he founded the Civic Museum of Genoa. 

 Not only did Doria provide the funds for the maintenance 

 of this jNluseuin, but through his munificence it was enriched 

 with the collections from New Guinea made by Beccari, 

 D'Albertis, and Loria, those from Burma made hy Fea, 

 and others from many other parts of the Avorld, so that the 

 Genoa Museum soon became the leading Zoological Museum 

 of Italy. 



To publish the results of his zoological explorations Doria 

 founded the ' Aunali del Museo Civico ' in 1870^ forty-six 



