October
23, 1992
Dear
Bill:
A
note to thank you for the letter of 27 Aug 92 and for your new booklet on Rare
breeds and others. I
particularly enjoyed reading the section on Exchequer Leghorns; much of that
information was new to me. I saw the breed only once, in the 1950’s in
Belgium of all places. They are probably long since gone.
There
is indeed an Australian rare breeds group. For your information the address
is:
Australian
Rare Breeds Reserve,
Mrs. Carole Lomas,
Snig
Hall,
Gidgegannup,
Western Australia 6555
The
Cordoba meeting was hectic but good. I no longer find travelling easy or
enjoyable, and so I am happy to be home again.
I
gave a paper on origin and diffusion of turkeys, from the Americas to Europe
and back again. Most of the audience was cattle people but I got a few
interested comments. It will be published in due course in a Spanish journal
with wide circulation and may stimulate some interest eventually. I included
Charmaine McKusick’s work on separate domestication of Merriam’s turkey,
and all the questions that raises.
Best
wishes,
R.D.
Crawford, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus