It’s always a delight to see this display @morethanadodo.bsky.social about Mary Anning featuring some of her fossils, including a lovely little ichthyosaur.
Tom Sharpe
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Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
![Top left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and a straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon; top right, portrait of Adam Sedgwick with dark hair and in a dark coat; bottom, extract from Sedgwick's diary '20 [September 1820] After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning - was to Charmouth Cliffs - large flags of lias covered with impressions of ammonites'.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreigeahzov7lyzn4ysxdzwhnt43fwtcqrmghraaybrxzgroydfwxhme)
![Top, extract from Murchison's journal 'Charmouth Sept 14 1825 To day to Lyme & sat in the Plesiosaurus Bed with Mary Anning – a drenching rain'; centre left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon; centre right, portrait of Roderick Murchison with a full head of hair and long sideburns; bottom, extract from Murchison's journal where he went to the 'Western Beach where I soon discovered her [Mary Anning] with her dog, hammer & basket – a fine intelligent young woman'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreia72a6ry72ymqjgifsih4jp5lflforu3o3xlg7ty3gpz6dyq65iem)
