Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Lost: Darwin's Missing Notebook

Charles Darwin Photo: PA

From The Telegraph:

An appeal has been launched to track down one of Charles Darwin's most important notebooks, which was probably stolen in the early 1980s.

English Heritage wants anyone who might know of the whereabouts of Darwin's 'Galapagos notebook' to come forward.

It is launching the appeal today to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

To mark the anniversary, English Heritage is also publishing online Darwin's 14 other notebooks from his time aboard HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836.

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