The Royal Geographical Society and The Zoological Society, both interested in announcing new finds, seemed to have encouraged the rumor that Mouhot — whom they had sponsored to chart mountains and rivers and catalog new species — had discovered Angkor.
Det Kongelige Geografiske Selskab og Det Zoologiske Selskab, der begge var interesseret i at annoncere nye fund har tilsyneladen opfordret til rygtet om at Mouhot — som de havde sponsoreret for at kortlægge bjerge og floder og katalogisere nye arter — havde opdaget Angkor.