542 Biographical Notice of the late Prof. Giglioli. 
The official announcement has since been made at a com¬ 
memoration of the late Prof. Giglioli, held at the Florence 
Museum on February 2nd of this year. 
Between 1881 and 1883 Giglioli was appointed by the 
Italian Government to undertake three separate deep-sea 
explorations in the Mediterranean, and carried out the work 
most efficiently on board the R.S. * Washington/ The 
scientific results obtained during these explorations were 
published in due course, and the fact of the existence of an 
abysmal Mediterranean Fauna was made known for the first 
time, some important discoveries being recorded in the way 
of new genera and species of fishes, brought to the surface 
from a depth of 3632 metres. The existence of a deep-sea 
fauna in the Mediterranean had previously been doubted, 
and even denied by some competent authorities, in con¬ 
sequence of the negative results obtained from the dredging 
that had been carried out by English and French expeditions. 
In 1884 Giglioli attended the first International Ornitho¬ 
logical Congress, held at Vienna, as the representative of 
Italy, a capacity in which he was present at all subsequent 
meetings of the kind held in Europe, viz. at Budapest in 
1891, at Paris in 1900, and in London in 1905. He also 
represented Italy at the International Conference held in 
Paris in 1895 for the Protection of Birds. In addition to 
these, as delegate of the Italian Government, he attended 
various other international and local congresses. Geographical 
and Ethnological as well as Zoological; in fact there were few 
scientific meetings of any importance at which Giglioli was 
not present. Quite recently he was called to Rome, to 
give his opinion with regard to the new Game Laws that 
the Government proposes passing in Italy. 
In 1885, after the Vienna Ornithological Congress, at 
which meeting it had been decided that each State should 
institute an ornithological enquiry throughout its dominion, 
Giglioli was charged to carry out that for Italy, the results 
being published four years later in an important work of over 
700 pages, entitled “ Report on the results of the Ornitho¬ 
logical Enquiry in Italy : Part I.—Avifauna Italica.” This 
