It is with the deepest regret we announce that Dr. Elliott Coues, the author and editor of the various works on Western Exploration which it has been our privilege to publish, passed away to his final resting place December 25, 1899. Though suffering great pain, he with cheerful courage revised the last proofs and wrote the Introduction to this his final work.<br><br>We have not to do here with his place as a student and historian of Western history and the Western country, nor of the value of the fifteen volumes of which he was the author-editor; but we deem it a duty and a pleasure publicly to testify our appreciation of him from a publisher's point of view.<br><br>Our acquaintance with Dr. Coues commenced in 1892, when we suggested his revising and editing a new edition of "Lewis and Clark Expedition." From that time until his death we have been almost in daily communication with him, and never had a single misunderstanding of any kind.