In a report from the BBC :-
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Originally Posted by By Rebecca Jones Arts correspondent, BBC News, 5 April 2022
Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen.
The small leather-bound books are worth many millions of pounds and include the scientist's "tree of life" sketch.
Their return comes 15 months after the BBC first highlighted they had gone missing and the library launched a worldwide appeal to find them.
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The notepads date from the late 1830s after Darwin had returned from the Galapagos Islands. On one page, he drew a spindly sketch of a tree, which helped inspire his theory of evolution and more than 20 years later would become a central theory in his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species.
"The theory of natural selection and evolution is probably the single most important theory in the life and earth environmental sciences and these are the notebooks in which that theory was put together," says Jim Secord, emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University.
"They're some of the most remarkable documents in the whole history of science."
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Story here :-
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60980288