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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[September 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 37
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Darwin Family Letters
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Acquaintances say principal contents of Seward book should be recounted in German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Will CD check MS for errors?
Would like CD to write a paper on the results of geese experiments; hopes CD will not object to his doing the same despite the variance of their conclusions [see F. B. Goodacre, "Question of identity of Chinese and domestic goose", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1879): 710–12 and CD’s "Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Sends copy of Die Urzelle [1879].
Clerical party in Germany rejoicing because science cannot explain all facts at once.