From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 66
Summary:
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
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].
Will do nothing with the geese until he hears from FBG. Is glad FBG intends to publish his results.
Can dispose of CD’s geese if he wishes.
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.