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To Walter Elliot 23 January 1856
Summary
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1824 |
To Walter Elliot 12 December [1858]
Summary
Thanks WE for an oriental treatise on pigeons, a paper on poultry, and specimens.
Asks about stripes on shoulders and legs of horses and donkeys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.162) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2380 |
To Walter Elliot 3 August [1869]
Summary
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1869] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6849 |
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| letter | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Elliot, Walter | (3) |
