Monday 27 June 2011

Overdue Charles Darwin book returned to library 122 years late

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8591006/Overdue-Charles-Darwin-book-returned-to-library-122-years-late.html

Staff at an Australia library have been stunned after first edition copy of Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants book was returned 122 years late.

A stamp inside the first edition copy showed that the book had been borrowed more than a century ago, on January 30, 1889.

Investigations have found that the book had been in a private collection for 50 years before being handed to a local university, whose employees passed it back to the library.

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