Title: Discovering Dorothea : the life of the pioneering fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate /
Authors: Shindler, Karolyn.
Publisher: HarperCollins,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Bate, Dorothea.; Paleontologists Great Britain Biography.; Women paleontologists Great Britain Biography.
Abstract: "In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer and fossil-hunter and the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than fifty years." "As a young woman in the early 1900's, she explored the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Crete and the little-known Majorca and Menorca, braving parental opposition and considerable physical hardship and danger. In remote caves in mountains and sea-battered cliffs, she discovered, against enormous odds, the fossil evidence of unique species of extinct fauna, previously unknown to science, including dwarf elephants and hippos, giant dormice and a strange, small, goat-like antelope.^