Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 539 
Henry received his early instructions at Genoa and Pavia. 
In the year 1861, on his father being appointed to a 
professorship at Pisa, under the new Italian Rule, young 
Giglioli, then sixteen years of age, was sent by the Italian 
Government to study in London, and selected the School 
of Mines for that purpose, as having the! most able 
lecturers of the day. During the three years he spent in 
London he made good use of his time, acquiring the solid 
grounding which formed the basis of the profound scientific 
knowledge which was to serve him so well in after years. 
Attending most of the important scientific meetings and 
lectures in London, notably those given by Huxley, whose 
work on Comparative Anatomy he afterwards translated into 
Italian, Giglioli lost no opportunity of improving his mind, 
and, at the same time, of cultivating the acquaintance of the 
best Naturalists and other eminent men of the day, such as 
Darwin, Owen, Wallace, Lyell, Tyndall and Hooker. Among 
his more intimate friends, besides Huxley, may be mentioned 
the two Lankesters, Forbes, Sclater, Sharpe, Gunther, 
Seebohm, Swinhoe and Yule. 
I have before me, at the present moment, an interesting 
little document, kindly placed at my disposal by Madame 
Giglioli, which shows the keen interest in Natural Science 
evinced by Giglioli and some of his friends even at a very 
early age. The document, which bears the emblem of a 
triangle, with the three words Truth , Love, Perseverance 
inscribed within it, followed by the names of fifteen great 
Naturalists and men of Science, enumerates the u Articles of 
Faith ” binding upon those belonging to a brotherhood 
formed for the advancement of Natural Science. It is undated, 
but must have been drawn up between 1861 and 1864, and 
is signed by Edwin Ray Lankester and Henry Giglioli. 
It may at once be stated that Giglioli was not only a good 
Ornithologist, but also a first-class all-round Zoologist, 
besides being distinguished in other branches of Science, 
but of this more anon. 
From London Giglioli proceeded to Pisa in order to 
complete his studies, and in 1864 took his degree at the 
