I would like to thank the following: the staff of the libraries at the Geological Society and the Natural History Museum, London; the staff of the Lyme Regis Philpot Museum, the Dorset County Museum and the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester; the Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester, where I first learned of Mary Anning; Philippe Taquet of the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Paul Jeffery at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Maureen Stollery for her help with Philpot genealogy; Alexandria Lawrence; Jonny Geller; Deborah Schneider; Susan Watt; Carole DeSanti; and Jonathan Drori.

  Most of all, I would like to thank three people: Hugh Torrens, who knows more about Mary Anning than anyone and has been very cordial to me. Jo Draper, who is a saint, opening up the files at the Philpot Museum and sending me bits and pieces of information about everything, and who wears her erudition lightly and with great humor. Finally, Paddy Howe, fossil hunter ex traordinaire, who gave me many fossils and took me upon beach between Lyme and Charmouth to find more, teaching me with patience, intelligence, and grace.

  Further Reading

  Cadbury, Deborah, The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World, 2000 (UK); as Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science, 2001 (US)

  Conybeare, William, and Henry De La Beche, papers on the ich thyosaur and plesiosaur for the Geological Society, 1821, 1822, 1824, reprinted in The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906, edited by David B. Weishampel and Nadine M. White, 2004

  Draper, Jo, Mary Anning’s Town: Lyme Regis, 2004

  Fowles, John, A Short History of Lyme Regis, 1991

  Gillispie, Charles C., Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850, 1951

  Howe, S. R., T. Sharpe, and H. S. Torrens, Ichthyosaurs: A History of Fossil “Sea-Dragons,” 1981

  Lang, W. D., various papers on Mary Anning in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1936-1963

  McGowan, Christopher, The Dragon Seekers: The Discovery of Dinosaurs During the Prelude to Darwin, 2001

  Pascoe, Judith, chapter on Mary Anning in The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors, 2005

  Pierce, Patricia, Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters, 2006

  Roberts, George, Roberts’ History of Lyme Regis and Charmouth, 1834

  Rudwick, Martin J. S., Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, 2005; and Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, 2008

  Taquet, Philippe, “Quand les Reptiles marins anglais traversaient la Manche: Mary Anning et Georges Cuvier, deux acteurs de la découverte et de l’étude des Ichthyosaures et des Plésio saures,” in Annales de Paléontologie 89 (2003): 37-64

  Tickell, Crispin, Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, 1996

  Torrens, Hugh, “Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme; ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew,’ ” in British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1995): 257-84

 


 

  Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

  (Series: # )

 

 


 

 
Thank you for reading books on BookFrom.Net

Share this book with friends