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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2022 16:35:35 GMT
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Post by nathangeorge on Apr 7, 2022 11:12:00 GMT
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Post by John Green on Apr 7, 2022 13:18:55 GMT
"It was back in 2001 that the notebooks, which represent some of Darwin’s first inklings of his radical theory of evolution by natural selection, were originally found to be missing. They had been removed from storage to be photographed, and work was recorded as completed in November 2000. But during a subsequent routine check made in January 2001, it was found they had not been returned to their proper place. At the time staff believed they may have been mis-shelved. A fingertip search of key areas in the library, which houses about 10m books, maps, manuscripts and other items, proved to be unfruitful, and the books were eventually reported as stolen to the Cambridge constabulary in 2020." So it took 19 years to report that they were missing, possibly stolen. |
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Post by RWels on Apr 7, 2022 17:37:41 GMT
"It was back in 2001 that the notebooks, which represent some of Darwin’s first inklings of his radical theory of evolution by natural selection, were originally found to be missing. They had been removed from storage to be photographed, and work was recorded as completed in November 2000. But during a subsequent routine check made in January 2001, it was found they had not been returned to their proper place. At the time staff believed they may have been mis-shelved. A fingertip search of key areas in the library, which houses about 10m books, maps, manuscripts and other items, proved to be unfruitful, and the books were eventually reported as stolen to the Cambridge constabulary in 2020." So it took 19 years to report that they were missing, possibly stolen. That is how the story evolved. |
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Post by John Wall on Apr 7, 2022 21:38:21 GMT
"It was back in 2001 that the notebooks, which represent some of Darwin’s first inklings of his radical theory of evolution by natural selection, were originally found to be missing. They had been removed from storage to be photographed, and work was recorded as completed in November 2000. But during a subsequent routine check made in January 2001, it was found they had not been returned to their proper place. At the time staff believed they may have been mis-shelved. A fingertip search of key areas in the library, which houses about 10m books, maps, manuscripts and other items, proved to be unfruitful, and the books were eventually reported as stolen to the Cambridge constabulary in 2020." So it took 19 years to report that they were missing, possibly stolen. That is how the story evolved. G-r-o-a-n. |
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