Título: Marie Stopes
Seção: Scientific research
Background: Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 - 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice.

Conteúdo: During Stopes's time at Manchester, she studied coal and coal balls and researched the collection of Glossopteris (Permian seed ferns). This was an attempt to prove the theory of Eduard Suess concerning the existence of Gondwana or Pangaea. A chance meeting with Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott during one of his fund-raising lectures in 1904 brought a possibility of proving Suess's theory. Stopes's passion to prove Suess's theory led her to discuss the possibility of joining Scott's next expedition to Antarctica. She did not join the expedition, but Scott promised to bring back samples of fossils to provide evidence for the theory. Scott died during the 1912 Terra Nova Expedition, but fossils of plants from the Queen Maud Mountains found near Scott's and his companions' bodies provided this evidence.  In 1907, Stopes went to Japan on a scientific mission. She spent eighteen months at the Imperial University, Tokyo and explored coal mines on Hokkaido for fossilised plants. She published her Japanese experiences as a diary, called "Journal from Japan: a daily record of life as seen by a scientist", in 1910.  In 1910, the Geological Survey of Canada commissioned Stopes to determine the age of the Fern Ledges, a geological structure at Saint John, New Brunswick. It is part of the Early Pennsylvanian epoch Lancaster Formation. Canadian scholars were divided between dating it to the Devonian period or to the Pennsylvanian/Upper Carboniferous period. Stopes arrived in North Am

user: What scientific research did Marie Stopes do?

assistant: she studied coal and coal balls and researched the collection of Glossopteris (Permian seed ferns).

user: Was her research on coal ever published?

assistant: This was an attempt to prove the theory of Eduard Suess concerning the existence of Gondwana or Pangaea.

user: Did she prove the theory of Eduard Suess?

assistant: Stopes's passion to prove Suess's theory led her to discuss the possibility of joining Scott's next expedition to Antarctica. She did not join the expedition,

user: Did Stopes do any other research?

assistant: In 1907, Stopes went to Japan on a scientific mission.

user: What research did Stopes do in Japan?

assistant: She spent eighteen months at the Imperial University, Tokyo and explored coal mines on Hokkaido for fossilised plants.

user: Were there any findings or published papers from her research in Japan?

assistant: She published her Japanese experiences as a diary, called "Journal from Japan: a daily record of life as seen by a scientist", in 1910.

user: Did Stopes do any more research anywhere?

assistant: In 1910, the Geological Survey of Canada commissioned Stopes to determine the age of the Fern Ledges, a geological structure at Saint John, New Brunswick.

user: How did Stopes do with the research of Fern Ledges?

assistant: she did geological field work and researched at geological collections in museums, and shipped specimens to England for further investigation.