Little seems to be known about Elliman who compiled the first list of Coleoptera for Hertfordshire in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, 1, 1902, pp.83-110, and who added to the list with notes in the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society (eg. 12, 1905, p.168 and 13, 1907, p.10). For at least part of this time he lived in Tring and subsequently in Chesham, and he published notes on these Buckinghamshire sites in the EMM. (eg. 36, 1900, pp.11-12 and 236; 39, 1903, pp.18-19; 40, 1904, p.158; and 41, 1905, p.20). Later, his collecting extended to Cromer (ibid., 44, 1908, pp.274-75), Horning (ERJV., 7, 1896, pp.306-308), Llanfairfechan (EMM., 9, 1898, pp.257-258 and 10, 1899, pp.211-212) and to the Isle of Man. At the last he took Longitarsus curtus [Thyamis curta] All. which he confirmed as British. When working on the Hertfordshire fauna it is known that he collaborated with C.T.Gimingham. John Owen has pointed out to me that Atheta ellimani, which Elliman took in carrion at Carlisle, was named after him by Bernhauer in 1909. According to a typescript in the NMW, Elliman gave his collection of Staphylinidae to Tomalin in 1929. There is also evidence, however, that Tomalin bought a collection of Coleoptera from Elliman for £14 in this year and I have seen a receipted letter to this effect. It is not clear whether these are the same or different collections. Certainly Coleoptera from Elliman's collection passed to the NMW via Tomalin. According to information I have received from Trevor James a duplicate collection of Coleoptera to that now at Cardiff but without data labels exists in the St. Albans Museum. A further 23 beetles were given by Elliman to the NHM in 1898 (1898.236), and Trevor James also tells me that there are Elliman specimens in the D.G.Hall collection at Baldock. Two of Elliman's collecting diaries are preserved in the NMW. They include lists of numbers from 1-2331 (August 1891 - Oct 1896) and 2340-7084 (June 1896 - Aug 1907). I have not found any obituary notices. (MD 10/02)