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ANNING, MARY (1799—1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNING, See also:MARY (1799—1847) , See also:English fossil-See also:collector, the daughter of See also:Richard Anning, a See also:cabinet-maker, was See also:born at Lyme Regis in May 1799. Her See also:father was one of the earliest collectors and dealers in fossils, obtained chiefly from the See also:Lower See also:Lias in that famous locality. When but a See also:child in 1811 she discovered the first specimen of See also:Ichthyosaurus which was brought into scientific See also:notice; in 1821 she found remains of a new saurian, the See also:Plesiosaurus,and in 1828 she procured,for the first See also:time in See also:England, remains of a pterodactyl (Dimorphodon). She died on the 9th of See also:March 1847.

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