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a little to their merit … Not only with her pen did she render material assistance, but her natural talent in the use of her pencil enabled her to give accurate illustrations and finished drawings … She was also particularly clever and neat in mending broken fossils … It was her occupation also to label the specimens.
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Not only was she a pious, amiable, and excellent helpmate to my father; but being naturally endowed with great mental powers, habits of perseverance and order, tempered by excellent judgement, she materially assisted her husband in his literary labours, and often gave to them a polish which added not
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and author Elizabeth Oke Buckland Gordon. The children were exposed to their parents' collections of fossils from an early age and at the age of 4, Frank could successfully identify the vertebrae of an ichthyosaurus. Buckland supported her husband's pursuits, while balancing her time to help educate,
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Mary Buckland started her career as a teenager producing illustrations and providing specimens for George Cuvier, widely regarded as the founder of paleontology, as well as for the British geologist William Conybeare. She made models of fossils, and labelled fossils for the Oxford University Museum
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Baster). In 1799 Harriet died, following the birth and early death of the couple's second child, and in 1802 Benjamin married Elizabeth Thornhill. By 1812, when Benjamin bought Sheepstead House at Marcham near Abingdon, Mary had many half-brothers and sisters. Although at some stage she attended a
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In 1842 Mary's husband fell ill and his mental health began to decline. In 1850 he was sent to John Bush's Mental Asylum at Clapham in London. Shortly after, Mary retired to St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex and continued to show an appreciation of her husband's studies. Mary died in St Leonards on 30
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Although Mary Buckland was in poor health after her husband's death, she continued her husband's work and branched out her own research. Examining micro forms of marine life through a microscope, with her daughter Caroline, and arranging a large collection of zoophytes and sponges, which she
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in 1836. Her son noted that she was particularly "neat and clever in mending fossils" with specially developed cementing, and in assisting William Buckland's experiments to reproduce fossil tracks and many others. She assisted him when he was commissioned to contribute a volume to
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Mary Buckland assisted her husband greatly by writing as he dictated, editing, producing elaborate illustrations for his books, taking notes of his observations, and writing much of it herself. Her skills as an artist are on display in Mr. Buckland's largely illustrated work
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and teach her children. She also spent her time promoting education within the villages. During her marriage, her desire to pursue science was limited because of her husband's disproval of women being engaged in scientific pursuits.
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Buckland, William, and David Knight. Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume 1. Published in Association with the Natural History Museum by Routledge, 2003.
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Buckland, William, and David Knight. Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume 1. Published in Association with the Natural History Museum by Routledge, 2003.
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collected during her visits to the Channel islands of Guernsey and Sark with her husband. Much of her fossil reconstructions are held by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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Torrens, H. S. "Buckland , Mary (1797–1857), geological artist and curator." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. January 03, 2008. Oxford University Press,. Date of access 7 Feb.
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November 1857, and was buried in Islip, Oxfordshire Mary Buckland amassed a vast collection of fossils and other specimens and taught in a village school in
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and provided him with specimens and illustrations. Buckland established a name for herself as a scientific draughtswoman, who helped
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Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society and contributors. “Mary Buckland, Nee Morland.” Abingdon-on-Thames, 2015.
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Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography
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Mary Morland was born in 1797, the eldest child of Benjamin Morland (1768–1833), a successful solicitor with a practice in
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of Natural History, studied marine zoophytes and repaired broken fossils inline with her husband's instructions.
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in Oxford, where Pegge, the Regius Professor of Anatomy at the University, encouraged her scientific interests.
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Both were travelling in Dorsetshire and each were reading a new and weighty tome by the French naturalist
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Burek, Cynthia V., and B. Higgs. The Role of Women in the History of Geology. Geological Society, 2007.
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Burek, Cynthia V., and B. Higgs. The Role of Women in the History of Geology. Geological Society, 2007.
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Her eldest son Frank, said the following about his mother for her contribution to Buckland's work:
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boarding school in Southampton, Mary also spent much time during her childhood at the home of
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Kölbl-Ebert M 1997. Mary Buckland (née Morland) 1797-1857. Earth Sciences History 16: 33-38.
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In the midst of her teenage years she was intrigued by the studies conducted by
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Proyecto Penelope – The role of the history of science in secondary education
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Whitehouse, Elizabeth (2012). "The Morlands of Sheepstead House, Marcham".
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British palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator
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Science, Paleontology, Marine Biology, Scientific Illustration
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According to Caroline Fox, Buckland met her husband
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Mary Morland

Abingdon-on-Thames
Berkshire
Islip, Oxfordshire
William Buckland
palaeontologist
marine biologist
scientific illustrator

Abingdon-on-Thames
Sir Christopher and Lady Pegge
Georges Cuvier
Conybeare
William Buckland
William Buckland
Georges Cuvier
Dean of Westminster
Frank Buckland
Islip

Megalosaurus
The Bridgewater Treatises
"Females, Fossils and Hyenas – part 1"
"Where are the Women in Science? A case study using women in the history of geology to develop a European curriculum"
"Females, Fossils and Hyenas – part 2"


"Buckland, Mary Morland"
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