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The role of women in the history of geology ; [a conference held at the London Geological Society on 28 November, 2005]

Table of Contents:
  • The role of women in the history of geology: an introduction /C.V. Burek and B. Higgs --The role of women in geological higher education - Bedford College, London (Catherine Raison) and Newnham College, Cambridge, UK /C.V. Burek --Fossil hunters, a cave explorer and a rock analyst; notes on some early women contributors to geology /M.R.S. Creese --The contribution of British women to Carboniferous palaeobotany during the first half of the 20th century /H.E. Fraser and C.J. Cleal --The role of women in British Quaternary Science /J.K. Hart --The quiet workforce: the various roles of women in geological and natural history museums during the early to mid-1900s /P.N. Wyse Jackson and M.E. Spencer Jones --The historical problems of travel for women undertaking geological fieldwork /C.V. Burek and M. Kolbl-Ebert --Great Expectations: Florence Bascom (1842-1945) and the education of early US women geologists /R.M. Clary and J.H. Wandersee --The role of women in the history of geological studies in Ireland /B. Higgs and P.N. Wyse Jackson --The role of British and German women in early 19th century geology - a comparative assessment /M. Kolbl-Ebert --Invincible but mostly invisible: Australian women's contribution to geology and palaeontology /S. Turner --