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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Charles Darwin's Lost Fossil Collection



Dr Falcon-Lang, who is based in the department of earth sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, spotted some drawers in a cabinet marked "unregistered fossil plants".
"Inside the drawer were hundreds of beautiful glass slides made by polishing fossil plants into thin translucent sheets," Dr Falcon-Lang explained.

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Lost Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered in cabinet



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