File BHH/1/136 - Letter from Joseph Barnard Davis to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 12 September 1860

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/136

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Letter from Joseph Barnard Davis to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 12 September 1860

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  • 12th Sep 1860 (Creation)

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Davis Joseph Barnard 1801-1881 Physician, craniologist

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Letter from Joseph Barnard Davis to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank Hodgson for his valuable essays on Nepali tribes. Davis has found them most helpful and discusses points concerning them within the letter. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 12 September 1860.

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