Book is returned to library after 122 years

Staff at an Australian library were left stunned after a Charles Darwin book was returned 122 years late.

Staff at an Australian library were left stunned after a Charles Darwin book was returned 122 years late.

The stamp inside the first edition copy of the 'Insectivorous Plants' tome revealed it had originally been borrowed on January 30, 1889, before being lost to a private collection for 50 years.

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