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Nature 440, 725 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440725b; Published online 5 April 2006

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Wellcome Trust fuelled bid to save British science treasure

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Private donors finance return of Hooke's manuscript.

The Wellcome Trust put its financial weight behind Britain's Royal Society last week in order to rescue a prized seventeenth-century manuscript from bidders at Bonhams auction house in London.The society claims that the 520-page treasure, handwritten by the physicist Robert Hooke, was taken from its archives some 300 years ago, and put out a public plea to recover the papers (see Nature 439, 638–639; 200610.1038/439638a