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2 CHAPMAN, In Memoriam: Daniel Giraud Elliot. fan. 
record of Dr. Elliot’s life by a summary of the opportunities for 
study which his travels and museum affiliations afforded him. 
His first journeys were made to the southern United States and 
West Indies. In 1857 he went to Rio Janeiro and on his return 
crossed to Europe travelling from Malta to Sicily and thence to 
the Nile. From Cairo he crossed the desert to Palestine visiting 
Petra, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Damascus, and crossed the 
Lebanon Mountains at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Thence he 
returned to Europe and America. During this journey the muse- 
ums of London and Paris were visited, and relations established 
which prepared the way for Dr. Elliot’s later studies at these insti- 
tutions. 
These occupied the greater part of the period between 1869 and 
1883. It was during the first part of this time that as the repre- 
sentative of the recently organized American Museum, Dr. Elliot 
secured important collections of birds for that institution. 
In 1883 on resuming his residence in New York City, Dr. Elliot 
made his headquarters at the Museum to which he had rendered 
such important service, and soon began to prepare systematic 
papers on certain groups of birds from specimens in its much 
enlarged collections, now under the care of Doctor Allen. Acting 
on behalf of the Museum, with Jenness Richardson, its taxidermist, 
he made a trip in 1888 to Montana in search of Bison. No living 
specimens were seen, but much valuable osteologic material was 
secured. 
In 1894 Dr. Elliot accepted a call from the trustees of the recently 
organized Field Museum to become the Curator of its Department 
of Zodlogy, and he occupied this post until his resignation in 1906. 
Two years after going to Chicago Dr. Elliot organized and led a 
Field Museum expedition into Somaliland. He was attacked by a 
serious illness before the expedition was completed, but large col- 
lections had already been made which subsequently were added to 
the study and exhibition collections of the Field Museum. The 
African mammals which form so attractive a feature of the exhibi- 
tion halls of the Field Museum were secured by this expedition and 
subsequently mounted by Carl E. Akeley, who accompanied Dr. 
Elliot to Africa. Recognizing Akeley’s exceptional talents as an 
animal sculptor, Dr. Elliot had previously secured his services for 
the Field Museum. 
