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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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