COUES, ELLIOTT (18421899)

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COUES, ELLIOTT (18421899) , American naturalist, was born at Portsmouth, New

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

, on the 9th of September 1842. He graduated at Columbian (now George Washington)University, Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet at Washington in 18621863, and in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 19or, has done much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. In 18731876 Coues was attached as surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1876188o was secretary and naturalist to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, the publications of which he edited. He was lecturer on anatomy in the medical school of the Columbian University in 1877-1882, and professor of anatomy there in 1882-1887. He resigned from the army in 1881 to devote himself entirely to scientific research. He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union, and edited its organ, The Auk, and several other ornithological

periodicals

PERIODICALS

. He died at

Baltimore

BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. 1580—1632)

Maryland

MARYLAND

, on the 25th of December 1899. In addition to ornithology he did valuable

work

WORK

in mammalogy; his book Fur-Bearing Animals (1877) being distinguished by the accuracy and completeness of its description of species, several of which are already becoming rare. In 1887 he became president of the Esoteric Theosophical Society of America. Among the most important of his publications, in several of which he had collaboration, are A Field Ornithology (1874); Birds of the North-west (1874); Monographs on North American Rodentia, with J. A. Allen (1877); Birds of the Colorado Valley (1878); A Bibliography of Ornithology (1878188o, incomplete); New England Bird Life (1881); A Dictionary and Check

List

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

of North American Birds (1882); Biogen, A Speculation on the Origin and

Motive

MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

of Life (1884); The Daemon of Darwin (1884); Can Matter Think ? (1886) ; and Neuro-Myology (1887). He also contributed numerous articles to the Century Dictionary, wrote for various encyclopaedias, and edited the Journals of Lewis and

Clark

(1893), and The Travels of Zebulon M. Pike (1895).

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