Soh Kam Yung on Nostr: "After 18 years of painstaking research – involving scouring numerous obscure lists ...

"After 18 years of painstaking research – involving scouring numerous obscure lists and consulting unusual sources, as well as extrapolating from vague, fragmentary and handwritten notes – we have finally completed the task of cataloguing the contents of Darwin’s enormous library. We now know that Darwin’s library contained 7,494 unique titles across 13,000 volumes/items."

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-20/issue-2/jul-sep-2024/charles-darwin-library/

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