Dr
Edmund Hoffmann
Canning - Nova Scotia - Canada
28-12-1987
Dear
Ed,
I
thank you for your letter of 26th November and the addresses. I
will endeavour to make contact with them. I have been writing to George Carter
and Fred Jeffrey for some years and enjoy my correspondence with them. George
writes a very humerous letter and Fred has been most helpful with information
on color breeding.
I
will try Johannson again. I did not receive a reply to a letter I wrote some
years ago.
OK
on Kimball. I think I have some of his papers amongst my files. I will speak
to Fred about him.
Regarding
the starting off from Gallus gallus.
Everyone seems to evade the issue taking the easy way out, but as you say not
very imaginative. There has virtually been no work done on the subject of what
Gallus gallus come from and it’s hard to determine how to start. I
think I will have to get onto some of the ornithologists. They may be able to
help. The problem I find is that although they dig up a bone here and there,
there is no after study done on the material. Being in Australia also makes it
hard as out here I am away from the action.
Hope
you have enjoyed a good Xmas. Best wishes for 1988.
Regards.