Melville De Lancey Landon (1839–1910), also known by his pen name Eli Perkins, was an American humorist, lecturer, and journalist.

After graduation, he obtained a position in the United States Treasury, and served in the Civil War under General Augustus Louis Chetlain.

He returned to the United States in 1870, and the following year published his first book, The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell.

He wrote and compiled several books of humor, and was past president of the New York News Association.

He died at his home in Yonkers, New York, on December 16, 1910, at the age of 71, after suffering from locomotor ataxia for some six years.