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#MaryAnning well-represented today in the children's section of The Mainstreet Trading Company with these lovely books by Kate_winter and Fossil Hunter: Available in bookstores.

Although my paper on the history of palaeontology at #LymeRegis (& #MaryAnning, of course!) was published online just before Christmas, I'm delighted to receive today a hard copy of the The Geological Society Special Publication containing it. Seems more real, somehow. geolsoc.org.uk/SP543

The MaryAnningRocks statue maquette is on the move again! The maquette was moved from NationalStoneCentre to Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery earlier this week where it will be in residence until October on the next leg of the tour.

#FossilFriday A composite 'crocodile': a partial #plesiosaur skeleton & #ichthyosaur jaw found at Wilmcote in Warwickshire in 1810. It was purchased by Cambridge University in 1821 at the sale of the collection of Dr Richard Wright of Lichfield. The jaw survives The Sedgwick Museum.

#OTD in 1841 British Science Association meeting in Plymouth, Richard Owen spoke for over 2 hours about British fossil reptiles. Contemporary reports make no mention of him using the term 'Dinosauria' in his lecture. Owen introduced it in his published report in April 1842. #FossilFriday

Just helped SASTA put together a whole corner at this year’s Science Alive dedicated to Mary Anning! 🥺 40 000 people are expected to attend across the weekend! For more info about Mary, head to… linktr.ee/TheseCuriousTh… #ScienceWeek

Wonderful work by The Sedgwick Museum in locating this historically significant early specimen of a #plesiosaur, discovered in 1810 in Warwickshire, published in 1811, and bought by Adam Sedgwick in 1821. The most complete example before the discoveries of 1823.

#OTD in 1837 Prussian naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt arrived in #LymeRegis for an 8-day visit during which he met #MaryAnning. He gives us a lively description of a fit, strong, tanned woman whom he calls 'die Herrin der Palaeontologie', looking ten years younger than her true age.

In #LymeRegis #OTD in 1800, three people, one carrying an infant, took shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck the tree and killed the three. The child was unconscious but was revived. Surviving the lightning strike made #MaryAnning a local legend.

Fossil collector Elizabeth Philpot died #OTD in 1857, aged 78. With two of her sisters, Mary and Margaret, and often in the company of #MaryAnning, she built up a significant collection of Lias fossil fish, now Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which drew scientists to their home in #LymeRegis.

French comparative anatomist #GeorgesCuvier was born #OTD in 1769. He mentions #MaryAnning's discoveries in his 1825 'Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles' and she wrote to him at times about her latest discoveries, even though she preferred her fossils to remain in England.

Make learning about Rocks & Soils hands-on and exciting! Borrow a Geologists' Association Schoolorocks! box packed with rocks and fossils and with accompanying lesson suggestions. Perfect for your inquiring Year 3 class or inspiring home educated children.

Lovely surprise to learn today that #LymeRegis and the Jurassic Coast Trust is included in IUGS second list of Geological Heritage Sites, not just for its great geology but also for its importance to the history of geosciences. Lyme Regis Museum #MaryAnning iugs-geoheritage.org/geoheritage_si…

Wonderful! Great to see that the new edition of The Geological Society Geology of Scotland is now out. Really looking forward to seeing a copy sometime soon.

Had cause today to consult my copy of #WilliamBuckland's Bridgewater Treatise, with its many references to #MaryAnning, my copy rebound by some Victorian owner with offcuts of tasteful(!) wallpaper.

#FossilFriday London surgeon & palaeontologist James Parkinson's 1822 illustration of a #Megalosaurus tooth from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire and his use of the name 2 years before #WilliamBuckland published it, clearly an open secret The Geological Society at the time #dinosaurs #historyofgeology

As displayed Lyme Regis Museum

#OTD in 1835 #MaryAnning wrote to geologist Adam Sedgwick in Cambridge to ask if he had received an #ichthyosaur which she had sent by ship from #LymeRegis to London a week before. He had, and the 'perfect Ichthyosaurus', which cost £50, can be seen The Sedgwick Museum today.

If, like me, you heard Kate_winter speak about her beautifully illustrated #MaryAnning book, The Fossil Hunter, at last year’s Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, you’ll be delighted to learn that it’s just won this award. Congratulations!

#OTD in 1825, geologists Roderick and Charlotte Murchison first met #MaryAnning at #LymeRegis. They had called at her shop to be told by Mrs Anning that Mary was on the beach: 'I soon discovered her with her dog, hammer & basket – a fine intelligent young woman', he wrote.