From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project