To F. B. Goodacre 5 January 1875
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’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9801 |
To F. B. Goodacre 10 September [1879]
Summary
Has sent some geese.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12224 |
To F. B. Goodacre 20 February 1875
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.’
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9864 |
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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 11 February [1873]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763F |
To F. B. Goodacre 29 August 1879
Summary
What should CD do with the geese? One gander chases and frightens his grandchild. Does FBG intend to publish his results?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12204 |
To F. B. Goodacre 2 September 1879
Summary
Will do nothing with the geese until he hears from FBG. Is glad FBG intends to publish his results.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12214 |
To F. B. Goodacre 13 August [1879]
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?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 13 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12193 |
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 |
To F. B. Goodacre 5 December 1879
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].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12345 |
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