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DCP-LETT-1824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123)
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.]

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DCP-LETT-2380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
12 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.162)
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.

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DCP-LETT-6849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
3 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.

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DCP-LETT-6856

From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A72–3
Summary:

Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]

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DCP-LETT-6880

From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A74
Summary:

Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]

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