Duff (1993), p.3 records that Gillo was ‘the first local man to make extensive studies of Somerset beetles... Gillo’s collection passed to the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution probably in 1914, and in 1933 was displayed in glass topped boxes around the walls of one of the rooms in the Institution’s premises... The collections... are currently inaccessible and uncurated, and it is likely that extensive damage has taken place to any surviving entomological material’. (MD 10/03)