Daniel Giraud Elliot 656676 218485318 2008-06-10T21:21:51Z AlleborgoBot 3813685 robot Adding: [[la:Daniel Gerardus Elliot]] [r5545] [[Image:Daniel-Giraud-Elliot-001.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Hybrid pheasant, lithography from ''A Monograph of the Phasianidae''.]] '''Daniel Giraud Elliot''' ([[March 7]],[[1835]] - [[December 22]], [[1915]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[zoologist]]. Elliot was one of the founders of the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in [[New York]] and the [[American Ornithologists' Union]]. He was also curator of zoology at the [[Field Museum]] in [[Chicago]]. Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds and animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as [[Joseph Wolf]] and [[Joseph Smit]], both of whom had worked for [[John Gould]], to provide the illustrations. The books included ''A Monograph of the Phasianidae (Family of the Pheasants)'' (1870-72), ''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 [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] awards the [http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_elliot Daniel Giraud Elliot medal] "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology published in a three- to five-year period. Established through the Daniel Giraud Elliot Fund by gift of Miss Margaret Henderson Elliot." {{Ornithologist-stub}} [[Category:1835 births|Elliot]] [[Category:1915 deaths|Elliot]] [[Category:American ornithologists|Elliot, Daniel Giraud]] [[Category:American zoologists|Elliot]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Elliot, Daniel Giraud}} [[de:Daniel Giraud Elliot]] [[es:Daniel Giraud Elliot]] [[fr:Daniel Giraud Elliot]] [[la:Daniel Gerardus Elliot]] [[fi:Daniel Giraud Elliot]]