From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 75–6
Summary:
Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.
Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.
R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
