William Buckland

Standard Name: Buckland, William

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1820: William Buckland's excavation of Goat Hole...

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1820

William Buckland 's excavation of Goat Hole cave near Paviland on the Welsh coast uncovered both animal bones and a human skeleton, dubbed the Red Lady of Paviland because of the red ochre stains on...

1831: The Philpot sisters—Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth...

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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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27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...

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27 September 1831

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded at a meeting in York.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
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Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
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1833-1835: Early periods of the earth's history were...

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1833-1835

Early periods of the earth's history were variously identified by Charles Lyell and Adam Sedgwick of England, and Roderick Impey Murchison of Scotland.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Porter, Roy. “Gentleman and Geology: The Emergence of A Scientific Career, 1660-1920”. Historical Journal, Vol.
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, 1978, pp. 809-36.
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