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DCP-LETT-11664

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 63–4
Summary:

Crossing experiments with common and Chinese geese. Offers CD geese if he wishes to repeat experiments.

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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.

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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
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