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Actuary to the Sanitary Commission. In the same year he made a 

 Statistical Report to the United States Sanitary Commission on the 

 Mortality and Sickness of the United States Volunteers. He also 

 contributed to the Republic Magazine of July, 1863, a paper on 

 Mutual Relations, as to Price, of Gold, Greenbacks, Silver Bullion, 

 and Silver Coin. 



In 1863 he was sent as a delegate from the American Statistical 

 Association to the International Statistical Congress at Berlin, Sep- 

 tember 6th to 12th, where he presented a paper on the Military Statis- 

 tics of the United States of America, which was published, in Eng- 

 lish, by the Royal Printer of Prussia (44 pages, 4to), with appended 

 charts. 



In 1864 Mr. Elliott was sent by the Sanitary Commission to 

 inspect the hospital and ambulance services of the armies engaged 

 in the Danish war. In the discharge of this duty, Mr. Elliott visited 

 the hospitals of the contending forces on both sides. The results of 

 his observations were submitted to the Sanitary Commission, but 

 have not, so far as I am advised, been published. During his tour 

 Mr. Elliott prepared a report on Prussian Mortality, which was pub- 

 lished in the Zeitschrift of the Royal Statistical Bureau of Prussia. 



At the close of the War of Secession, Mr. Elliott was appointed 

 Secretary of the United States Revenue Commission, under the chair- 

 manship of Mr. David A. Wells, to which had been assigned the al- 

 most hopeless task of bringing order out of the weltering chaos of 

 customs duties and internal revenue taxes which had been imposed, 

 in defiance of all recognized laws of finance, by an uninstructed Con- 

 gress urged on by the continually recurring exigencies of a war of 

 unexampled proportions. Mr. Elliott's services in this capacity were 

 of incalculable value to the country, although they did not appear in 

 a form distinct from the general work of the Commission. After the 

 Commission was dissolved, and Mr. Wells became sole Special Com- 

 missioner of the Revenue, Mr. Elliott continued his work upon the rev- 

 enue system.* On the discontinuance of Mr. Wells's ollice, in 1869,f 

 Mr. Elliott was assigned to duty in the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury 



* At the Chicago meeting of the American Association, in lSi'.s, Mr. Elliott 

 presented a paper on "Redemption Periods of Monetary Values involving 

 Life-Contingencies." Also, a paper on the " Metrical Unification of Interna- 

 tional Coinage," suggested by the International Monetary Conference of that 

 year in Paris. 



t In this year Mr. Elliott prepared the extended section (00 pnges, 4to) on the 

 Moneys, Weights, and Measures of different Countries, embraced in Webster's 

 Counting-House Dictionary. 



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