Scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils in gloomy corner of
British Geological Survey Using a flashlight to peer into
drawers at the British Geological Survey, a paleontologist saw
one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled 'C.
Darwin Esq.' British scientists have found scores of fossils the
great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwinand his peers
collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.Skip to
next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Dr. Howard Falcon-
Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London,
said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing
the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a
"gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological
Survey. Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up
a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had
picked up was labeled "C. Darwin Esq." "It took me a while just
to convince myself that it was Darwin's signature on the slide,"
the paleontologist said, adding he