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Enrico Hillyer Giglioli was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist. He was born in London and first studied there. He obtained a degree in science at the University of Pisa in 1864 and started to teach zoology in Florence in 1869. Marine vertebrates and invertebrates were his academic interest, but he was a noted amateur ornithologist and photographer. He was director of the Royal Zoological Museum in Florence, Italy. He wrote up the zoology of the corvette magenta on which he had taken over from Filippo de Filippi

Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel was a German zoologist and palaeontologist. He was a professor of zoology at the University of Halle where he managed the zoology collections at the museum. His interests were in systematics and palaeontology and he opposed Darwinian evolution. He published several works including Palaozoologie (1846); Fauna der Vorwelt (1847-1856); Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852); Odontographie (1855); Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857); and Thesaurus ornithologiae (1872-1877).