Mies xy) CuHapMAN, In Memoriam: Daniel Giraud Elliot. 5 
The fact that Dr. Elliot was in his sixty-second year when he 
undertook this difficult African journey, and that he afterward 
made a collecting trip to the Olympic Mountains, is indicative of 
the energy and love of work which ever urged him from victory to 
fresh conquests. 
His longest journeys, however, were made after he had resigned 
from the Field Museum and went in search of material on which to 
base his great monograph of the Primates. For this purpose he 
sailed for Europe in April, 1907, and remained abroad until 1909. 
After studying in all the principal museums of Europe he went to 
Egypt and to Ceylon, thence from Calcutta to Rangoon and passed 
through Burmah. Returning to Rangoon he went to the Straits 
Settlements and thence to Singapore. His route now led to Batavia 
in Java, and later to Hongkong, Canton and Shanghai. Then he 
journeyed 800 miles up the Yang-tse-Kiang to Hankow and from 
there he crossed to Peking and Tien-tsin, and back by sea to 
Shanghai. From China he went to Japan returning to New York 
through San Francisco. 
Again taking up his quarters at the American Museum, which as a 
naturalist, in spite of his repeated absences, he always considered 
his real home, Dr. Elliot began to elaborate for his proposed mono- 
graph the enormous amount of data he had acquired in his travels. 
The need for further study of the specimens in European collec- 
tions arising, Dr. Elliot later revisited the museums of London, 
Paris, Leiden, Berlin, Dresden and Munich, before returning to 
New York to complete his monograph. 
From this outline of Dr. Elliot’s travels and researches in field 
and study, it will be observed that he had exceptional opportuni- 
ties for the acquisition of the information embodied in the long 
list of publications which form so lasting and eloquent a record of 
his productive industry. 
His first paper on birds, ‘Descriptions of Six New Species of 
Birds,’ was published in “The Ibis’ for October, 1859. Both the 
nature of the subject and the place of publication indicate that this 
paper was prepared during his first trip to Europe. It is evident 
moreover that this journey exerted a marked influence on the char- 
acter of Dr. Elliot’s ornithological studies which, following the 
European rather than American method, were monographic rather 
than regional in scope. 
