Elizabeth Philpot

Standard Name: Philpot, Elizabeth

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1824

Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning , a friend of Elizabeth Philpot , discovered a skeleton of the Plesiosaurus dinosaur and sold it to the Duke of Buckingham for £200.

Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.

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1831

The Philpot sisters—Mary , Margaret and Elizabeth —of Lyme Regis established a fossil museum which became famous; they supplied material to such geologists as William Buckland , Richard Owen , and Henry de la Beche .

Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.

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