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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 |
