Enrico Hillyer Giglioli

He obtained a degree in science at the University of Pisa in 1864 and started to teach zoology in Florence in 1869.

[1] In 1870 he reported seeing a new species of whale (unofficially called Giglioli's Whale) 1,200 miles (1,900 km) off the coast of Chile – 60 feet (18 m) long with two dorsal fins – observed by Giglioli from Magenta, a warship of the Italian Royal Navy.

[5][6] Giglioli conducted a detailed study of the chimpanzee skulls which his friend Georg August Schweinfurth collected in the region of today's southern Sudan[specify].

After his death, Giglioli's collection, together with his extensive archaeological and ethnological library (from 1885 Giglioli concentrated on his ethnographic collection exchanging specimens with the Smithsonian Institution and fellow naturalists, notably Edward Pierson Ramsay), went to the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography where they are now conserved.

The photographic archive includes work by John K. Hillers, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Charles Milton Bell photos as well as his own.