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pean museums, he went to Egypt, went 
up the Nile to the second cataract and 
then directed his course to India. He 
studied monkeys of various species there, 
still other species in Ceylon, and then 
went over from Calcutta to Rangoon and 
passed through Burma, going as far north 
as Mandalay, the old capital on the Ira- 
wadi River. Returning to Rangoon he 
passed over to the Straits Settlements 
and visited the museums and zodlogical 
gardens there. He went from Singa- 
pore to Java and stopped at Batavia 
for some time. Returning to Singapore 
he moved to Hong Kong, passed up the 
river to Canton, and then returning 
went to Shanghai. Then he journeyed 
eight hundred miles up the Yang-tse- 
kiang River to Hankow, and from there 
crossed through the heart of China, to 
Peking, to Tien-tsin, and back by sea to 
Shanghai. From China he went to 
Japan, passing through the Inland Sea 
and landing at Kobe; then to Kioto, 
where he remained a considerable time 
because exceedingly interested in the 
zoological gardens and in the wild mon- 
keys which inhabited the forests all 
around the city. He visited the places 
in Japan likely to further his researches, 
and then started for home. On his way 
to San Francisco he visited a number 
of the islands of the Honolulu group, 
among them the one on which is Mauna 
Loa, the smaller voleano at the foot of 
Mauna Loa being in action at the time 
of his visit. 
After reaching the United States, Dr. 
Elliot came at once to the American 
Museum to devote 
research in hand. Somewhat later he 
went again to Europe — to London, Paris 
Leiden, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna and 
Munich, to do certain comparative 
study still necessary. Comparative data 
on Primates was difficult to obtain. 
For more than a century they have been 
himself to the 
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
a subject for study by naturalists in 
many countries and thus the types are 
to be found in all corners of the earth — 
wherever scientific research has been 
done. Since the material is so greatly 
scattered, it could seldom be brought 
side by side for comparison of charac- 
teristics. Thus the monograph proved 
to be an immense labor — which was 
conscientiously accomplished. The work 
now finished is an elaborate treat- 
ment, in three quarto volumes, of the 
lemurs and monkeys of the Old and New 
Worlds, as well as of the anthropoid 
apes. It was published as a mono- 
graph! of the American Museum. 
Dr. Elliot is the author of many 
volumes? besides the recent Review of 
1 The series of illustrations in Dr. Elliot’s mono- 
graph (from photographs by A. E. Anderson) 
both in fidelity to nature and artistic treat- 
ment of half tones, are of an excellence never 
before reached in works on osteology or craniol- 
ogy. As reviewers have said, ‘‘....by means of 
more than one hundred photographic plates of 
skulls, giving lateral, frontal, ventral and dorsal 
views, the close student of the monkeys has all 
the world’s types, as it were, brought to him. 
The value of these plates cannot be overesti- 
mated, and the work would be a notable one 
were it merely a portfolio of them.’’ 
2 The following is a list of some of the important 
publications of Dr. Elliot: 
A Monograph of the Tetraonine, or Family of 
the Grouse. 27 pls. col., with descriptive 
letterpress. fol. New York, 1864-1865. 
A Monograph of the Pittide, or Family of the 
Ant Thrushes. 31 pls. col., with descriptive 
letterpress. fol. New York, 1867. (Second 
edition, pp. xxiii, 1 tab., 51 pls. col., with 
descriptive letterpress. London, 1893-95.) 
The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of 
the Birds of North America. 2 vol. illust. 
col. fol. New York, 1869. 
A Monograph of the Phasianide, or Family of 
the Pheasants. 2 vols. illust. col. fol. New 
York, 1872. 
A Monograph of the Paradiseide, or Birds of 
Paradise. 37 pls. col., with descriptive letter- 
press. fol. London, 1873. 
A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of 
the Hornbills. 59 pls. col., with descriptive 
letterpress. fol. London, 1876-82. 
A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochi- 
lide. pp. xii, 277. text illust. (Smithson- 
ian Contributions to Knowledge) 4°. Wash- 
ington, 1879. 
A Monograph of the Felide, or Family of the 
Cats. 43 pls. col., with descriptive letter- 
press. fol. London, 1883. 
