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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 62
Summary:

Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
20 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FBG for his essay. Thinks FBG’s planned collection would be very useful but is ‘not sanguine of success’. Most naturalists do not care about domesticated productions. ‘A strong remnant of the feeling yet survives that there is a marked distinction between varieties & species, & naturalists regard only the latter.’

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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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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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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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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 65
Summary:

Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

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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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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 66
Summary:

Crossbreeding experiments with geese.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
13 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Reports the results of breeding from FBG’s hybrid geese. The hybrids are fertile inter se. Would FBG like the geese back? If CD publishes his observations may he use FBG’s results?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
29 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

What should CD do with the geese? One gander chases and frightens his grandchild. Does FBG intend to publish his results?

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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 67
Summary:

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].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Will do nothing with the geese until he hears from FBG. Is glad FBG intends to publish his results.

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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 68
Summary:

Can dispose of CD’s geese if he wishes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
10 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent some geese.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Were the hybrid geese FBG sent to CD brother and sister from the same hatch? CD intends to send a letter on their breeding to Nature [Collected papers 2: 219–20].

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From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 69
Summary:

The hybrid geese FBG sent to CD were brother and sister from the same hatch. Would greatly value a copy of Nature containing CD’s letter.

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