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Society transferred its offices to Leicester Square, he entered Its emj 

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

 the Museum and making skeletons for the latter. Dr. J, E. I 

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

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

 the service in April 1811, when Sir Henry Ellis was the Principal 

 Librarian, and the national collection was Btored in Montague B 

 Bloomshnry. 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 Road. His early duties consisted in assisting Dr. Gray in the 

 arrangement of the old British Museum, and especially Looking after tin- 

 collections of Mammalia, Reptiles and Fish, and keeping the registi 

 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. 16, 5 



Gibson (Ernest). 



114 birds from Argentina. Presented. [1903. 12. 18, 1-111.] 

 This collection has been described in the " Ibis " for lsT'.i and 1 S - 



Gifford (Lord). 



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

 Syrrhaptes tibetanus and Montifringilla hmmatopygia (</. Gould, P.Z.S., 

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



Lord Gifford was the elder brother of the celebrated 9th Marqui 

 Tweeddale (q.v.). 



Giglioli (Professor H. H.), Director of the Rot/al Museum of 

 Natural History at Florence. 



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



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 (F.). 



A Bpecimen of the St. Helena Sand-Plover ( J\<jialiti> ) 



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



Gillett (Fred.). 



98 birds from Somali Land. 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 

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

 father, and was not able to go the entire journey. \\v afterwards D 

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

 him to the Museum contained specimens of much interest. 



Gladstone (Hugh E.). 



8 specimens of Black Game in changes of plumage, from Dui 



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



33 nestlings and embryos of various birds. Presented. [1903.7.31, I 



