irre 
6 CuapMan, In Memoriam: Daniel Giraud Elliot. Jan: 
He therefore acquired the Maximilian of Wied collection, con- 
- taining many types of South American species, the A. L. Heermann 
collection from the southwestern United States, and a large repre- 
sentative collection of the birds of the world, including a Great 
Auk, was purchased from the Parisian dealers, Verreaux Fréres. 
Dr. Elliot’s own collection of about 1000 North American birds 
including four specimens of the Labrador Duck, a bird which he 
himself saw in the flesh in New York markets, had already been 
secured by the Museum; and he later (1888) presented to it the 
fine collection of Hummingbirds on which his ‘Monograph’ of this 
family was based; at the same time the Museum also came into 
possession of Dr. Elliot’s valuable ornithological library containing 
many rare works of reference, and complete files of such indispen- 
sable magazines, as ‘The Ibis’ and ‘Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society.’ 
Both abroad and at home Dr. Elliot’s services to science were 
recognized by the bestowal of many honors. He was the first 
American to be elected a Member of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union; he was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and served for 
years on its Publication Committee; he was also a Fellow of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Founder and Vice-president of the 
Zodlogical Society of France and the recipient of decorations from 
several European powers. 
As already stated, Dr. Elliot was a Founder of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union, and its President in 1890 and 1891, while 
the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Linnzean Society and New York 
Zoodlogical Society elected him to honorary membership. In 1906 
Columbia University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of 
Science; in 1914 the Linnean Society of New York presented him 
with its medal, and in 1915 he was elected a member of the Board 
of Trustees of the American Museum. 
To this record of the more significant events and achievements 
in Dr. Elliot’s career as a naturalist, which might be compiled by 
any biographer having access to the needed sources of information, 
the memorialist feels it to be his special duty to add some account 
of the man himself. Dr. Elliot was the last link connecting us 
with what Dr. Coues termed the Cassinian Period of American 
Ornithology — or the years between 1853 and 1858, . When he 
