To F. B. Goodacre 5 December 1879
6. Queen Anne St | Cavendish Squre | London.
December 5. 1879
My dear Sir
Will you be so kind as to inform me whether the two hybrids which you gave me were brother & sister of the same hatch?1 I am glad to find that you have communicated to the Zoolog. Soc. the results of your crossing.2 This being so I will send a short letter with a few remarks to Nature.3 If you do not see Nature & will inform me, I will send you a copy if my letter is printed.
My dear sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
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
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].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12345
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Burges Goodacre
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12345,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12345.xml
