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Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned After 20 Years

Two missing notebooks belonging to the scientist Charles Darwin were secretly returned to the Cambridge University Library recently. The stolen notebooks, which had been missing for over 20 years, were returned in good 30                          .

Charles Darwin was a very famous scientist who lived in the 1800s. His ideas about evolution – how different kinds of living 31                           change slowly over time – completely changed the way scientists understand the natural world.

Mr. Darwin began to develop his ideas after visiting the Galapagos Islands. He was trying to understand how tortoises and birds there had developed differently, depending on where they lived and what they ate.

He recorded his ideas in a series of notebooks labeled with letters of the alphabet. It took over 20 years for Mr. Darwin to turn his ideas 32                           a world-changing book. Since then, his notebooks have been considered 33                           important for showing how he developed his ideas.

The Cambridge University Library had several of Mr. Darwin’s notebooks. The two that were missing were kept in a small box, and were last seen in 2000, when they were taken out to be photographed. In 2001, someone noticed that the box was missing.

Jessica Gardner was the librarian 34                           the push to get Darwin’s notebooks back. But even she could never have expected the way in which the notebooks were returned: in a pink gift bag with a note that said, “Librarian, Happy Easter, X.” People at the library quickly recognized the blue box that the notebooks had been 35                           in. Inside a brown envelope they found the two missing notebooks, tightly wrapped in plastic.

After the police had examined the package, library workers were able to open and carefully study the notebooks. They were pleased to learn that the notebooks were in good 36                          . They hadn’t been damaged and they weren’t missing any pages.