RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Pallas, Memoire sur la variation des animaux. CUL-DAR205.7.88. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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.
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Pallas. "Memoire sur la variation des animaux." Act. A. St Petersburg 1780. p. 83. says A. cygnoides. (China goose) & common goose produce very productive hybrid offspring but that these return to state of domestic goose, if not recrossed with Chinese— no special account of particulars of number of generations. &c &c
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[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 439.]
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