Daniel Giraud Elliot
Primates
These chromolithographs
are cut from Daniel
Giraud Elliot's
classic, three-volume
Review of the Primates
, a monograph published by the American
Museum of Natural
History, New York,
1913. The
plates are by Joseph Wolf, Joseph Smit, J. G.
Keulemans, and Louis
Agassiz Fuertes. Elliot, along with
Albert S. Bickmore, founded
the American Museum of Natural History (1894)
and served as curator of
the Field Museum in Chicago. He also
founded the Zoological
Society
of France and the American Ornithogogists'
Union.
Size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches
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