This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis. She has become famous first as the discoverer—and saleswoman—of the exotic fossil creatures of the Lower Jurassic; and secondly as the prettified heroine of many children's books, sometimes identified with she "who sells sea-shells on the sea shore". A recent symposium in her honour at Lyme Regis brought together palaeontologists, historians and sociologists of science.
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