Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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...
Building item
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.
115
27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...
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.
302
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
44-51
Porter, Roy. “Gentleman and Geology: The Emergence of A Scientific Career, 1660-1920”. Historical Journal, Vol.