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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20070626
Author:Ian Swanson

A GBP 45 MILLION archive containing correspondence by Charles Darwin, Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Walter Scott and David Livingstone is to go on display in the Capital.

Among the exhibits from the John Murray Archive to go on show at the National Library of Scotland will be the letter in which Darwin pitched the idea for his book On the Origin of Species, introducing the world to his theory of evolution.

Other highlights include a mud-spattered drawing from David Livingstone's last journey.

Traveller, writer and broadcaster Michael Palin, who was due to open the exhibition this ...

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