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    Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 – December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist and the founder of the American Ornithologist Union. He was born in...
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  • The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in...
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  • was geneticist Bruce Wallace. In 1941, Dobzhansky was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was also...
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  • work, Tempo and mode in evolution, he was awarded the academy's Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1944. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and...
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    his work, Lives of Game Animals Volume 4, Seton was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1928. In 1931, he...
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  • American singer Charles Elliot (1801–1875), British diplomat Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915), American zoologist Sir Edmund Elliot (1854–1926), British...
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    in 1923, and Velociraptor in 1924. In 1929 Osborn was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. His legacy at the American...
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    thought to be a cyclopic eye socket. In 1920 he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He also showed great...
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    the National Academy of Sciences, from which she had received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1951. She also received the gold medal of the Linnean Society...
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    Western screech owl (category Taxa named by Daniel Giraud Elliot)
    kennicottii cardonensis (Huey, 1926) Megascops kennicottii kennicottii (Elliot, 1867) Megascops kennicottii macfarlanei Brewster, 1891 Megascops kennicottii...
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    the American Museum of Natural History, Colbert was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1935. He described...
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  • coelenterates and elasmobranchs. In 1948 Bigelow was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. The Henry Bryant Bigelow...
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  • ichthyological examples in his books. In 1992, Williams was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He won the Crafoord...
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    Ponginae (category Taxa named by Daniel Giraud Elliot)
    Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Ponginae Elliot, 1913 Type genus Pongo Lacépède, 1799 Genera †Lufengpithecus †Meganthropus...
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  • right. In 1952 the National Academy of Sciences awarded Carr the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Founder and Scientific Director of Sea Turtle Conservancy...
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  • Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952. In 1958 he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the...
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    claims. For his revised On Growth and Form, Thompson was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1942...
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  • work on genetics of evolutionary processes, Wright was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1945. He died in Madison...
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    proposed the Australopithecinae subfamily, Broom was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1946. The remainder...
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    For his work, Animal Species and Evolution, he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1967. Mayr was elected...
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    The Cell in Development and Inheritance, Wilson was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1925. The American...
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    Juruá red howler (category Taxa named by Daniel Giraud Elliot)
    2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T922A190422355.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021. Daniel Giraud Elliot (1910). "VIII.—Descriptions of new species of monkeys of the genera...
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    birds and bird descriptions, from artist, and ornithologist Daniel Giraud Elliot. In 1894, Elliot would become the curator of the Department of Zoology at...
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    in Washington, and one in London. In 1931 Black was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He died of heart failure...
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    Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Thompson is remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth...
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    received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and in 2000, was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He was also a fellow...
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  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. He was elected...
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    of Pepsin, Trypsin, and Bacteriophage, Northrop was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a Fellow...
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  • Sibley had left Yale. In 1988, Ahlquist and Sibley were awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. In January 1991 (often...
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    work, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia, he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1917. He was elected...
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