The notebooks -- one of which contains Darwin's 1837"Tree of Life" sketch -- had been removed from the university's special collections strong rooms, where rare and valuable items are kept, to be photographed in September 2000, the library said in a statement.
Darwin sketched his ideas around an evolutionary tree in the summer of 1837 after returning from his round-the-world trip aboard HMS Beagle -- decades before he published more developed ideas around the tree of life in"On the Origin of Species." After an"exhaustive" search for the items, which, according to the university, are likely worth"millions of pounds," the books are considered missing and likely to have been stolen.
"We would be hugely grateful to hear from any staff, past or present, members of the book trade, researchers, or the public at large, with information that might assist in the recovery of the notebooks. Someone, somewhere, may have knowledge or insight that can help us return these notebooks to their proper place at the heart of the UK's cultural and scientific heritage," she added.
i had a bogus copy of it in my secluded library.
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