1. Mary Buckland was an English palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator.
13 Facts About Mary Buckland
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Mary Buckland established a name for herself as a scientific draughtswoman, who helped Conybeare, Cuvier, and her soon to be husband, William Mary Buckland.
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In 1825 Mary married Buckland, who later became Dean of Westminster.
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Mary Buckland supported her husband's pursuits, while balancing her time to help educate, and teach her children.
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Mary Buckland spent her time promoting education within the villages.
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In 1842 Mary Buckland's husband fell ill and his mental health began to decline.
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Shortly after, Mary Buckland retired to St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex and continued to show an appreciation of her husband's studies.
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Mary died in St Leonards on 30 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 Islip, near the family's country home.
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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.
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Mary Buckland made models of fossils, and labelled fossils for the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, studied marine zoophytes and repaired broken fossils inline with her husband's instructions.
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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.
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Mary Buckland's 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.
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Mary Buckland assisted him when he was commissioned to contribute a volume to The Bridgewater Treatises.