RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.03.25. Bell tells me that he had hybrids of China & common goose. CUL-DAR205.7.226. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.
The brown crayon number '17' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Hybridism.
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March 25 /55/
Bell tells me that he had hybrids of China & common goose, & that these wd never copulate inter se, but wd receive & tread both pure parents. They wd. never even dally together. —
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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