"I think .... "
Darwin's
first sketch of an evolutionary tree, notebook of 1837.
In
2020, that this notebook, which had 'gone
missing' as
long ago as 2001 from the Cambridge
University collection of Darwin's writings, had in fact been
stolen. Unlike thefts of valuable paintings, which almost
always have a profit motive, the circumstances here
suggested an archetypal 'mad scientist' who hoarded
the notebook in their dungeon. The (in a pink gift bag) to the
Cambridge Library in March 2022, and is now on public
display as part of a
on Charles Darwin.