'Darwins Notebooks worth millions...'

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 Rob Exile Ward 24 Nov 2020

... been stolen.

Oh come on BBC, is the only way you can value something is by putting a price tag on it? These are priceless, whichever middle East, US or Russian  cnut has them on his shelves is demeaned by their possession, not enriched.

In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55044129

Temporary studio in temporary building? About the size of a postcard?

They've been thrown away by mistake.

Not quite sure why it's taken 20 years for this to come to light...

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 nufkin 24 Nov 2020
In reply to captain paranoia:

>  Not quite sure why it's taken 20 years for this to come to light...

To distract from an even older barrel-scraping about Saint Diana?

 nathan79 24 Nov 2020
In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

"Stolen". Sounds to me like they just can't find them and are perhaps unwilling to admit it.

 gravy 24 Nov 2020
In reply to nathan79:

Yep, it's in one of those old grey box files, stashed away in a cardboard box, behind a filing cabinet of some greying prof's office.

However, best to alert people in case the office gets cleaned out and the books get used as fire lighters.

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 johncook 24 Nov 2020
In reply to captain paranoia:

It's possibly taken 20 years because no one wanted to admit such a massive screw up!

In reply to captain paranoia:

I'm not sure librarians are recruited for their dynamism and go-getting. Especially when they're curating a 500+ year old collection.

'Come come, let's not be too hasty, I'm sure they'll turn up soon.'

 DancingOnRock 24 Nov 2020
In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

I think that was the problem. 
 

Wonder what the overdue charge is for 20 years?

I also wonder if maybe they suspect where they are but the current ‘borrower’ is denying they have them. They might suddenly turn up now the police are involved. 
 

Has there been a series of unexplained deaths lately? 
 

Would make a great episode of Morse. 

 Tom Last 24 Nov 2020
In reply to gravy:

As a recent graduate I worked briefly at Royal Geographical Society where one day I was asked to leaf through a chest of drawers which hadn’t been touched in years, to see what was in it. I found a Hokusai! 
There were a lot produced so not really that surprising, but yeah I agree, some quite extraordinary things do just get hidden behind stuff in such places. 

In reply to captain paranoia:

Of course, the other thing that struck me is that no one seems to have asked to look at it for the last 20 years...

 DancingOnRock 24 Nov 2020
In reply to captain paranoia:

It’s all that outdated evolution nonsense. No one is interested anymore. 

 Jon Read 24 Nov 2020
In reply to DancingOnRock:

Quite. Experts are so 19th century.

 FactorXXX 25 Nov 2020
In reply to DancingOnRock:

> Would make a great episode of Morse. 

Why would Morse be involved with something that isn't Oxford?
 

In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

I suppose if someone tried to speak up, they'd be told 'shush'...

 DancingOnRock 25 Nov 2020
In reply to FactorXXX:

It was poetic license for comedic effect.

 mcdougal 25 Nov 2020
In reply to captain paranoia:

> I suppose if someone tried to speak up, they'd be told 'shush'...

I love that image! Little guy standing for twenty years by the librarian's desk, jumping from foot to foot with his hand up. 

 Bulls Crack 26 Nov 2020
In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

> I'm not sure librarians are recruited for their dynamism and go-getting. Especially when they're curating a 500+ year old collection.

Oook!

 Bulls Crack 26 Nov 2020
In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

> ... been stolen.

> Oh come on BBC, is the only way you can value something is by putting a price tag on it?

The Origin of Specie? 

 EddInaBox 26 Nov 2020
In reply to Bulls Crack:

Tips hat, very droll.

In reply to EddInaBox:

To my shame, I'm still trying to work it out. (Continues sitting, staring at his laptop, tip of his tongue sticking out of one corner of his mouth.)


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