To F. B. Goodacre 20 August [1878]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11670 |
To F. B. Goodacre 23 August [1878]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11674 |
To F. B. Goodacre 3 September [1878]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11686 |
