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Mary Anning
Fossil hunter 1799 - 1847
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Who is Mary Anning?
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Lyme Regis
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Anning’s ‘Curiosities
In those days they were called:
• Vertiberries
• Snakestones
• Ladies’ fingers
• Devils Toenails
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Fossil Hunting for money
She occasionally sold
her fossils for between
100-200 pounds which
today equates to …
Over £150 000!
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What did Mary find?
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What did Mary find?
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How Mary got the fossils
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Mary’s faithMary was deeply religious.
She was Anglican, that is she
was a Christian of the
Church of England. When
she had moments of danger
she was known to spend
more time thinking about
God.
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Why few women?• In those times, there were very
few women in science. – and
women’s contributions were
hardly ever reported. We know
that girls are as smart as boys!
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Stain glass window
The Vicar from the local Church and some members of the Geological Society of London made a stain glass window to celebrate her expertise in furthering the science of geology.
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Pop quiz1.Mary was a scientist who loved
studying fossils?
2.True or False: Mary embraced her
passion for science as well as her
religious beliefs?
3.Where in the country were the rocks
she went fossil hunting for?
4.What was her dog’s name?
5.Mary was nearly crushed by a
runaway what?
True or False:
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Pop Quiz
6. How much money did Mary get for selling
some of her fossils?
7. What year was Mary Anning born?
8. What was the name of the famous fossil
Mary found?
9. What was Lyme Regis near to 200 million
years ago?
10.List 3 of the nicknames for fossils.
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Pop Quiz
11.What was Mary’s religion?
12.What was the society that put a
window up in memory of Mary?
13.Where was the window placed?
14.Who else helped put the window
up?
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Answers!
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She sells seashells on the
seashore
The shells she sells are seashells,
I’m sure
So if she sells seashells on the
seashore
Then I’m sure she sells seashore
shells