Two valuable notebooks by Charles Darwin, which had been missing for more than 20 years from the University of Cambridge in Britain and believed to have been stolen, were mysteriously returned to the university library in a gift bag containing a greeting card.
The two notebooks, one of which contains the sketch of the “Tree of Life” which became the symbol of the English natural theory of evolution, “were delivered in good condition to the Cambridge University Library more than two decades after it was discovered. their disappearance “, the library states in today’s announcement.
The notebooks were delivered anonymously on March 9th in a pink bag with an envelopein which it was written “Happy Easter” to librarians, is clarified in the announcement.
“My relief at getting my notebooks back to normal is profound and it is almost impossible to express them properly,” said Jessica Gardner, director of library services.
“As has happened to many other people around the world, my heart was broken when I learned of their loss and the joy of their return is immense,” he added.
Gardner had called for Darwin notebooks to be found in November 2020, saying they had “probably been stolen”.
Their value is estimated at several million pounds. The local police had been notified and the notebooks had been added to the Interpol database for the stolen works of art.
The two notebooks were taken out of the room where the library’s most valuable works are kept to be photographed in September 2000. A routine inspection in January 2001 revealed that the small pocket-sized box containing them was no longer in place. in his place.
For several years, librarians believed that notebooks had been misplaced in the library, which numbers about 10 million books, maps, manuscripts, and other objects, and by 2020 alone they had concluded that they were probably stolen rather than misplaced.
The works of Darwin (1809-1882), the father of the theory of evolution, made it possible for us to understand that the human being is neither at the center nor at the top of living beings.
The two rediscovered notebooks will be presented to the public this summer as part of an exhibition in Cambridge dedicated to the scientist.
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