541 
Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 
is practising as a physician in Florence. The daughter is 
married and resides in Genoa. 
Shortly after his appointment to his important post at the 
Florence Institute, Giglioli settled down to steady zoological 
work, chiefly, as was natural, cabinet work, although he also 
found time to make occasional zoological expeditions, for 
which his early training as a field-naturalist eminently 
qualified him. Among the more important of these expedi¬ 
tions may be mentioned those to the Italian islands and 
to the shores of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas, as well as 
one in Hungary and two in Corsica. 
In 1876 Giglioli laid the foundation of the fine collection 
of Italian vertebrate animals, now the pride of the Florence 
Zoological Museum. It had been his original intention to 
confine this collection to birds alone, but he was eventually 
induced to extend it to the entire vertebrate fauna. The 
need of such a collection in Florence had hitherto been sadly 
felt, and to its formation Giglioli devoted himself heart and 
soul, personally superintending the preparation and mounting 
of the specimens, and sparing no effort to make it as perfect 
as possible. The collection is, in fact, undoubtedly the 
most complete of its kind in Italy, and probably of any 
National collection elsewhere. It contains in all 34,200 
specimens of Italian Vertebrates, representing 1232 species, 
the Ornithological section comprising 4296 specimens, repre¬ 
senting 488 species. These are all beautifully mounted and set 
up, some by Prof. Magnelli and others by Sigr. Vincenzo 
Squilloni, both able taxidermists at the Florence Museum. 
Magnelli's zeal and co-operation were of the greatest service 
to Giglioli in the early stage of the formation of the collec¬ 
tion. During the course of the past year it has very rightly 
been decided that this collection should bear its founder's 
name, and in future be known as the Giglioli Collection. 
The official announcement of this resolution was to have 
been made on the occasion of the Jubilee to have been held 
in December last, but the information was privately communi¬ 
cated to Giglioli shortly before his death, and gave him much 
pleasure. 
