Ethiopia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
Mammals-32 Note, 1870-06-30
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 32r
Scope and Contents
Sexual Selection Mammals / The African River-Hog Potamochoerus pencillatus have great crust of skin with white hair above upper jaw
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1870-06-30
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Mammals-33 Note, 1870-06-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 33r
Scope and Contents
Recently the Ethiopian boar & Red river hog broke into each others cage & fought during the whole night until utterly exhausted
Note; by Emma Darwin née Wedgwood pp Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1870-06-29
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Sir Leopold George Heath: Letterbook, Abyssinian campaign [British expedition to the Ethiopian Empire]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9654
Scope and Contents
Contains contemporary copies of letters sent form Heath to the Secretary of the Admiralty between July 1867 and December 1870, copies of enclosures (mainly letters by other naval officers, list of sails, purchases, officers' allowances, etc) with alphabetical index. 675 pages. Last 4 letters in volume in different hand; possibly autograph signed copies of 4 letters by Heath.Notable entries include those regarding the suppression of the East African slave trade, with Heath's reports...
Dates:
1867-1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library