Daniel Giraud Elliot

Daniel Giraud Elliot ( born March 7, 1835 in New York City; † December 22, 1915 ) was an American zoologist.

Life

Daniel Elliot was both a co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, as well as a founder of the American Ornithologists ' Union. In the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, he worked as a curator of zoology. Elliot used his fortune to publish a series of expensive color prints of birds and animals. Elliot himself wrote the lyrics. However, for the images he commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, who had both worked for John Gould. The books included A Monograph of the Phasianidae ( Family of the Pheasants ) ( 1870-1872 ), A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise (1873 ), A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (1878 ) and Review of the Primates (1913).

The National Academy of Sciences awards the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal for meritorious work in the field of zoology or paleontology published within three to five years. In 1895, Elliot was elected a member of the Leopoldina.