As new hardcover in dust jacket, Dust jacket rubbed. Elliott Coues (1842-1899) was a renowned figure of American science during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, historian, lexicographer, and occultist - Coues was all of these. In composing this colorful biography, Cutright and Brodhead had access to a vast collection of hitherto unpublished material, in particular Coues' own hand-written Book of Dates.