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    HISTORY IN THE NEWS

    Jan 21, 2021 2 minutes

    Darwin’s notebooks have been lost for 20 years, library reveals

    Two notebooks written by 19th-century scientist Charles Darwin have been missing for two decades, Cambridge University Library has revealed.

    The postcard-size journals were created by Darwin in the 1830s, and include his “Tree of Life” diagram, sketching the relationship between different

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