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To F. B. Goodacre   5 December 1879

6. Queen Anne St | Cavendish Squre | London.

December 5. 1879

My dear Sir

Will you be so kind as to inform me whether the two hybrids which you gave me were brother & sister of the same hatch?1 I am glad to find that you have communicated to the Zoolog. Soc. the results of your crossing.2 This being so I will send a short letter with a few remarks to Nature.3 If you do not see Nature & will inform me, I will send you a copy if my letter is printed.

My dear sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

1
Goodacre had sent CD hybrid geese in 1878 (Correspondence vol. 26, letter from F. B. Goodacre, 2 September 1878).
3
See letter to Nature, 15 December [1879].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 6. … London.] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

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