Fushigi no Kuni no Bird - Vol. 2 Ch. 6 - Nikko (3)

[MangaDex]

 

[Simpleton]

Guessing from the comments page, it might seem the manga adaptation mixed up (or muddled together) Charles Darwin and Charles Dallas?

 

[toriaezu]

@Simpleton They were two separate people. Darwin was a contemporary acquaintance of Miss Bird's, but he did not ever visit Japan. Charles Dallas Esq. was the author of the paper "Notes Collected in the Okitama Ken" that was published in the journal Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan vol 3 issue 10. I managed to track down a digitized pdf (horribly boring stuff, do not recommend) in order to see if the content matched up (it didn't).

 

[Simpleton]

@toriaezu Yea, I gathered as much from the different names and from the explanation you gave. XD

I just meant that in the manga they might have been combined into the fictional character of "Charles Darwin, incidentally doing stuff that he didn't do in real life, but which should rather be ascribed to Mr. Dallas."

 

[toriaezu]

@Simpleton I'm not sure I understand you? The manga doesn't mix the two up? Darwin sent Bird a copy of Transactions, it never says that he wrote it.

 

[Simpleton]

@toriaezu Yes, you are completely correct. It clearly separates the two. This has all been just me having managed to confuse myself in a manner suitable to my name. As you were, and sorry about wasting your time.

(Edit to clarify, the above is not sarcasm. I finally trawled through the chapter again and found the reference I had managed to overlook. And I truly am sorry.)

 

[toriaezu]

@Simpleton happens to the best of us, don't worry about it!

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

@toriaezu Found a little typo here https://mangadex.org/chapter/98705/25

 

[toriaezu]

@DjAlexDubCheck thank you for mentioning it, somehow I managed to upload a pre-spell/grammar check version and didn't realize.