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MARY ANNING (1799—1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY
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ANNING (1799—1847)  ,
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English fossil-
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collector, the daughter of
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Richard
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Anning, a
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cabinet-maker, was
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born at Lyme Regis in May 1799 . Her
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father was one of the earliest collectors and dealers in fossils, obtained chiefly from the
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Lower
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Lias in that famous locality . When but a
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child in 1811 she discovered the first specimen of
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Ichthyosaurus which was brought into scientific
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notice; in 1821 she found remains of a new saurian, the
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Plesiosaurus,and in 1828 she procured,for the first
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time in
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England, remains of a pterodactyl (Dimorphodon) . She died on the 9th of
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March 1847 .

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