ELLIOT, Sir Walter

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The NHM accessioned 16 Indian Coleoptera ‘taken out of glass tubes from Sir Walter Elliott’ in 1877 (1877.14). His entry in Oxford Dictionary of of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101008670/ mentions that he was servant and archaeologist of the East India Company. Published ‘On Hylobius abietis’ in Proc.ESL., 1860, p.129, when he lived in Hawick (MD 10/02, 2/20)