Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea BateThis biography presents the untold life of an intrepid woman and early scientific pioneer. Dorothea Bate, paleontologist, geologist, archaeologist and ornithologist, established archeo-zoology as a serious scientific subject. She lacked any real formal education bar a childhood love affair with natural history acquired from the Carmarthenshire countryside in which she grew up. At the age of 17 (in 1895) she talked her way into a job sorting bird-skins in the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington and thus became the first woman to be employed there. |
Contents
This Noble Family | 14 |
Leave to Collect | 37 |
In Search of Extinct Beasts | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate Karolyn Shindler No preview available - 2006 |
Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate Karolyn Shindler No preview available - 2017 |
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