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DCP-LETT-11670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
20 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FBG for his offer [of geese for breeding experiments] but cannot undertake anything. Suggests FBG or any friend cross half-bred birds for a few generations; it would be a valuable contribution to science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
23 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Has changed his mind and would like some of FBG’s hybrids to breed from. Feels he should not lose the chance of perhaps recording the fertility of hybrids of two distinct species.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
3 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

The geese have arrived. Does not think FBG’s view that the two forms are domestic varieties will hold good. Many ornithologists put them in different genera, and the wild type of each is known.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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