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 |
DCP-LETT-1826
Summary
Table of measurements of heights, lengths of body parts, and weight, made on Indian tigers in 1831, 1832, and 1853.
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1826 |
From Walter Elliot 7 August 1869
Summary
Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A72–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6856 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
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