Very happy to see this! Well deserved and long overdue. Dorothea Bate was the first woman employee of the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social , where she started at age 19 & then continued to work for 50 years. She became Curator of Ice Age birds and mammals in 1924. #MuseumMonday
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Carmarthen fossil hunter Dorothea Bate recognised with blue plaque
Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.
