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From F. B. Goodacre   17 August 1878

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Crossing experiments with common and Chinese geese. Offers CD geese if he wishes to repeat experiments.

Author:  Francis Burges Goodacre
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Aug 1878
Classmark:  DAR 165: 63–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11664

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]

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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
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