From the junk e-mail goddess…
Someone writes…
\”A rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin\’s seminal work on natural selection has been returned to the Boston Public Library after disappearing at least eight decades ago.
An 1859 copy of Darwin\’s \”On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection\” was returned last week after a woman found the book while cleaning out a relative\’s home, Roberta Zonghi, the library\’s keeper of rare books, said on Wednesday. The library received the book in the 1860s as a gift, Zonghi said. The library noted that the book was missing in 1933, but it could have vanished a decade earlier.\” more…
The folks at ABCNews have this one
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