538 Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 
personal friends whom our late members have left behind 
them, while the unanimous expression of sympathy and 
esteem evinced by their numerous acquaintances and 
admirers in the world of science will also tend, in some 
measure, to mitigate the grief which must be felt at their 
loss. 
To the rising generation of workers in the field of 
Ornithology the precious heirloom which has been left us by 
Giglioli and Sharpe in their numerous published writings 
will be an inestimable boon, and should serve as an en¬ 
couragement and incentive to further and redoubled efforts 
on their part, in striving to follow the footsteps of the 
two great men who have gone before them. 
In referring to the loss of both of our late members, and 
coupling their names together, as I have done, I am perhaps 
going beyond my province, but the sad coincidence of 
their having been taken from us within so short a time of 
each other, added to the friendship and esteem that I have 
personally entertained for both, must be my excuse for so 
doing, if I have erred in this respect. 
Meanwhile I gratefully beg to express my recognition of 
the compliment paid me by the Editors of 4 The Ibis ; in the 
request that I should write a biographical notice of Professor 
Giglioli, a charge which I have the more willingly accepted, 
as affording me an opportunity of rendering a slight tribute 
to the memory of my late dear friend. 
Professor Henry Hillyer Giglioli was born in London on 
June 13th, 1845. His father, Dr. Giuseppe Giglioli of 
Brescello-Emilia, one of the plucky little band of Italian 
political exiles who sought and found a temporary home in 
our country, on leaving Italy, first settled in Edinburgh, and 
later on went to London, where he married an English lady. 
Miss Hillyer. I may here observe that Giglioli, although a 
staunch and patriotic Italian, was always proud of his 
English descent, while England, as well as Italy, has had 
reason to be proud of him. 
In 1848 the Giglioli family returned to Italy, and here 
