Mary was a significant but uncredited contributor to her husband Charles’s 1830s book, Principles of Geology. She is also known for her studies on evolution, having worked with Charles Darwin and conducted a study in 1854 of Canary Island’s land snails comparable to Darwin’s of Galapagos tortoises.
In 2019, Smithsonian Data Science Lab fellow Tiana Curry found that dozens of botanical samples collected by natural historian, botanist, and artist Mary Vaux Walcott were listed under Mary’s husband’s name in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History database.
Brisith geologist
Canada’s first woman to be a professional geologist
Charlotte Murchison collected and studied fossils, with other geologists of the time studying and publishing works about fossils in her collection.
Etheldred Benett amassed an impressive collection of fossils in the early 1800s, at one point encompassing thousands of specimens.
Margaret W. Moodey was one of the Smithsonian Institution’s first female staff members. By 1924, an annual report states that she “had the entire responsibility and care of the collection of cut gems.”
Internationally renowned organic geochemist and world-leading authority on molecular fossil and stable isotope geochemistry.
Kathleen Sherrard took an active role in a number of women’s organisations in Australia, particularly women graduates and scientific workers and published a number of articles on palaeontology.
Joan Crockford was an Australian geologist and invertebrate palaeontologist who specialised in Palaeozoic bryozoans.