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Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 
and wish to record their sense of the severe loss which 
the science of Ornithology has thus experienced. 
“ That the Secretary be requested to express to Col. B. 
F. Alexander, and other relatives of Mr. Boyd Alexander, 
full sympathy with them in the sad loss they have 
suffered.” 
A vote of thanks to the Zoological Society of London for 
the use of their rooms was unanimously passed and the 
Meeting adjourned. 
After the Meeting the joint Dinner of the British 
Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Club 
was held at Pagani's Restaurant, Great Portland Street, 
and attended by 47 Members and Guests. 
XXV .—Biographical Notice of the late Professor Giglioli. 
By Joseph I. S. Whitaker, M.B.O.U. 
The close of the year 1909 will be sorrowfully remembered 
by Ornithologists, and in particular by our Brethren of 
the British Ornithologists' Union, for the sad loss of two of 
its most prominent and distinguished members. 
With the death of Prof. Henry Hillyer Giglioli on the 
16th December, and that of Dr. Richard Bowdler Sharpe on 
the 25th December, 1909, two brilliant careers in the 
Ornithological World have been brought abruptly to an end, 
and two life-long records of industrious and indefatigable 
work in the cause of science have suddenly been arrested. 
The results of such work, self-imposed and self-denying 
toil, but undoubtedly a labour of love in both cases, have 
fortunately been specially rich and full of the highest interest 
and intrinsic value to our beloved branch of science, and the 
good deeds that have been accomplished by the two eminent 
men who have so recently been taken from our midst, while 
yet in the full vigour of manhood, will live for ever, though 
the authors are no more. 
The knowledge, nay, the mere thought, of this will 
assuredly be of comfort to the bereaved relatives and 
