From F. B. Goodacre 7 January 1880
Wilby Rectory | Attlebro’ | Norfolk
Jan 7/80
Dear Sir,
I ought to have written to thank you for the copy of “Nature” you so kindly sent me before this, allow me to do so now; I am greatly interested in your article although I remain of my old opinion:1 There are two little facts in connexion with domestic birds I can answer for which perhaps you may like to know; some years ago a blue mongrel pigeon of mine changed the white band over tail for a pale blue one such as many blue pigeons have; & a wild drake I bought young in the spring of 1864 is still flourishing & was the father of some 40 or so young ones which I reared last year for the table, I do not know whether there is anything remarkable in his age, having never read anything about the natural length of life of such birds
With kind regards | Believe me | yrs truly | F B Goodacre
Footnotes
Bibliography
Goodacre, Francis Burges. 1879. On the question of the identity of species of the common domestic and the Chinese goose. [Read 18 November 1879.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1879): 710–12.
Summary
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12410
- From
- Francis Burges Goodacre
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Attleborough, Norfolk
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 70
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12410,” accessed on 3 June 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12410.xml