Lost and Found After 165 Years

摘要

A collection of "lost" fossils, some collected by Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, went on display online at the British Geological Survey 17 January. Last year, Howard Falcon-Lang, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, stumbled on the collection of 314 glass slides gathering dust bunnies in a wooden cabinet in the corner of the Geological Survey. Botanist Joseph Hooker, a close friend of Darwin's, originally assembled the collection in 1846 for the British Geological Survey. However, by the time the survey instituted a formal specimen register in 1848, Hooker had left to explore the Himalayas and was unavailable to help catalog his work.