Dr Edmund Hoffmann
Canning - Nova Scotia - Canada

28-12-1987

Dear Ed,

I thank you for your letter of 26^th 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.