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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 G. J. Romanes   20 August 1878

Summary

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  20 Aug 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11671