Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I, LL.D., F.R.S

Abstract

BY the death at an advanced age of Sir Walter Elliot, we lose one of the few survivors from a group of men who, in the second quarter of the present century, by their contributions to the zoology of British India, laid the foundations of our present knowledge. The subject of the present notice was, however, so widely known for his acquaintance with the history, coins, languages, and ancient literature of Southern India, that his zoological work might easily be overlooked.