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