DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT— BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
Primates and in addition to hundreds of 
papers published in scientific journals 
here and abroad. Some of his books 
such as North American Shore Birds and 
The Wild Fowl of the United States and 
British Possessions have had some educa- 
tional influence in bringing about the 
popular interest in birds that exists in 
this decade in America. These books 
are wholly untechnical in character, and 
were designed largely for sportsmen and 
bird lovers. 
Dr. Elliot stood as an expert adviser 
for the Museum in its early days. The 
American Museum would not forget that 
North American Shore Birds: A History of the 
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers and their Allies. 
pp. xvi, 268. 74 pls. text illust. 8°. New 
York, 1895. 
The Gallinaceous Game Birds of North Amer- 
ica. pp. 220. 46 pls. and color chart. 
8°. London, 1897. 
The Wild Fowl of the United States and British 
Possessions, or the Swans, Geese, Ducks and 
Mergansers of North America. pp. xxii, 
316. 63 pls. 8°. New York, 1898. 
Synopsis of the Mammals of North America 
and the Adjacent Seas. Field Col. Museum 
Publ. 1901. 
The Land and Sea Mammals of Middle America 
and the West Indies. 2 vols. Field Col. 
Museum Publ. 1904. 
A Check List of the Mammals of the North 
American Continent, the West Indies and the 
Neighboring Seas. Field Col. Museum Publ. 
1905. 
A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals in 
the Field Columbian Museum. 1907. 
A Review of the Primates. 3 vols. 11 color pls. 
32 pls. American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, 1913. 
The Life and Habits of Wild Animals. [In 
collaboration with J. Wolf]. 4°. 1874. 
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time or that obligation. In giving him 
congratulations and heartfelt wishes at 
this anniversary, we would go back with 
him to the young days as he recalls the 
joy of his early collections, the joy of the 
travel and the work, the joy throughout 
the years of continued learning and dis- 
covery, the joy too of feeling himself a 
very palpable support to the Museum 
during the days of its greatest need, 
before it had even a home of its own. 
He said at the Linnean Society dinner 
two years ago: “As I look around upon 
this assembly and see so many naturalists 
gathered here, I am instinctively carried 
back into the long ago when New York 
and the Museum and I were young. 
There is no one here who remembers that 
time —for I am the sole survivor of 
those days.” 
The American Museum of to-day 
gives him greeting with grateful recog- 
nition and appreciation of those days. 
From all departments the institution 
extends to Daniel Giraud Elliot the 
welcome of fellowship in scientific en- 
deavor — whenever to-day he walks 
through her galleries and laboratories, 
viewing their present gigantic propor- 
tions, seeing also the promised growth 
of the next few years, and through the 
eyes of memory living again the insti- 
tution’s early days of which he was so 
intimately a factor and a guiding in- 
fluence. 
