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Last Name Anning

Given Name Mary °

alt. Names M. A.;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1799 in Lyme Regis

Year died 1847/60

Place of death Lyme Regis

Father's occupation carpenter and tourist fossil merchant Richard Anning

Relatives mother Mary née Moore; brother Joseph Anning

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for

Patronage

Collaborators brother Joseph Anning ; Henry Thomas de la Beche ;

Techniques geological & paleontological drawing & watercolour ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) www.strangescience.net/women.htm & www.strangescience.net/anning.htm

Archival sources British Museum Natural History London. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Anning_Plesiosaurus.jpg ; www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/evotourism/

Published sources Sawyer 1971: 90 ; Chansigaud 2009: 131 ; Hugh Torrens: M. A. of Lyme: 'The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew", British Journal for the History of Science ; Larry E. Davis: M. A. of Lyme Regis: 19th c. Pioneer in British Palaeontology (Headwaters) ;

other see also https://heritagecalling.com/2022/03/07/rock-stars-8-women-who-broke-new-ground-in-geology/

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