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(Flints Auctions via SWNS)

By Ed Chatterton

One of Charles Darwin’s microscope slides from his groundbreaking geological research is set for auction after being discovered in a cardboard box - almost 200 years on.

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(Flints Auctions via SWNS)

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(Flints Auctions via SWNS)

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