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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A. J. Arkell Age of Mount animals Antiquities archaeological archaeologist Arkell arrived Arthur Smith Woodward Balearics Bethlehem birds BM NH bone cave bone deposit Chania Charles cliffs collection creatures Crete Cyprus Department diary discovered discovery DMAB to Dr Dorothea Bate Dorothea wrote Dorothy Garrod Dr Arthur Smith early Edith Hall elephant Elinor excavations explored extinct Forsyth Major fossil fossil bones fossil fauna galleries Geology Ghar Dalam Henry Woodward Herakleion island January July June Keeper Kenneth Oakley Larnaca later Leakey Leila Letter from DMAB limestone Majorca Malta mammals Mediterranean Menorca Miss Bate morning Mount Carmel mountains Mousterian MSS BAT Myotragus Myotragus balearicus Natural History Museum Nicosia noted November Oakley October Oldfield Thomas palaeontologist Palestine Pleistocene rock sent Shukbah skeleton skull species specimens Starkey Stone Age teeth Thomas Tivy-side told Tring Trustees village weeks Wodehouse Zoology