Elliott Coues was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians, as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. This is his biography.
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