BBC News - Appeal over Charles Darwin's missing Galapagos notes
"An appeal has been launched to trace Charles Darwin's missing Galapagos notebook which provided crucial evidence for his theory of evolution.read complete article : BBC News - Appeal over Charles Darwin's missing Galapagos notesEnglish Heritage says the notebook, which helped him write On The Origin of Species, may have been stolen from his former Kent home in the 1970s or 80s.
In it he described encountering a giant tortoise and made notes on local birds.
English Heritage is putting Darwin's 15 notebooks online 150 years after On The Origin of Species was first published. "
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