Paleontology – Women of Paleontology #2
Join Ken McKeighen and Ken Boorman for an exciting discussion on the early female Paleontologists!! This will be fun.The nineteenth century was the ?golden age? of Geology, and women began to play an important role in the advance of this field of science. They collected fossils and mineral specimens, and were allowed to attend scientific lectures, but they were barred from membership in scientific societies. It was common for male scientists to have women assistants, often their own wives and daughters. A good example of that was Mary Lyell (1808?1873), daughter of the geologist Leonard Horner and the wife of eminent geologist Charles Lyell. But for most of men, the participation of women in geology and paleontology was perceived as a hobby.Mary Anning (1799-1847), was a special case. She was the most famous woman paleontologist of her time, and found the first specimens of what would later be recognized as Ichthyosaurus, the first complete Plesiosaurus, the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany and suggested that the ?Bezoar stones? were fossilized feces. Scientists like William Buckland or Henry de la Beche owe their achievements to Mary?s work. William Buckland himself, persuaded the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the British government to award her an annuity of ?25, in return for her many contributions to the science of geology.Mignon Talbot was born in Iowa, on August 16, 1869. She studied geology at Ohio State University. In 1904 she received a Ph.D. from Yale and then joined at Mount Holyoke College, where she became Professor of Geology and Geography until her retirement in 1935.Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie ?Tilly? Edinger was born on November 13, 1897 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was the youngest daughter of the eminent neurologist Ludwig Edinger and Dora Goldschmidt.
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Paleontology – Women of Paleontology #2
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Paleontology – Women of Paleontology #2
