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Notebooks lost for 20 years go on display in Cambridge
Notebooks written by Charles Darwin, which were mysteriously returned to Cambridge University Library after going missing for 20 years, are going on public display.
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They include his famous Tree of Life sketch exploring the evolutionary relationship between species.
The books were returned anonymously in April, in a pink gift bag.
The Darwin in Conversation exhibition opens at the University Library on Saturday.
The two postcard-sized notepads were left anonymously in a bag containing the original blue box the notebooks were kept in, and a plain brown envelope printed with the message: "Librarian, Happy Easter X."
The notebooks were last seen in November 2000 after a request was made for them to be removed from a special manuscripts storeroom to be photographed.
They were taken to a temporary studio but two months later the library discovered they were missing.
The notepads - valued at many millions of pounds - were returned, and are now being shown in public for the first time this century as part of the new exhibition.
There was no CCTV in the part of the library where the package was dropped, and it is still not known who took the books - or who returned them - but they had been well looked after, the library said.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary was involved in the case, but a spokeswoman said "the investigation has now been filed pending any fresh information coming to light".
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