Charlotte Murchison

Jul 4, 2014 | ,

Charles Lyell called her timid. Benjamin Disraeli called her the silent wife of a stiff geological prig. Yet Charlotte Murchison was the woman who opened up the lecture theatres of Kings College London to female geology students, who collected fossils across the UK and continental Europe despite relapsing malaria, and who is credited with the making of one […]

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