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SUMMARY:The Graptolite Women: Reading Nature's Handwriting\, 1890–1918 -
  Dr Richard Fallon (Sedgwick Museum)
DTSTART:20260519T180000Z
DTEND:20260421T190000Z
UID:TALK246796@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Liz Hide
DESCRIPTION:<p><em style="background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; color: 
 rgb(36\, 36\, 36)\;">Although women had long contributed to geological kno
 wledge\, it was only in the late nineteenth century — and especially in 
 Cambridge — that they started to gain formal training\, publication oppo
 rtunities\, and research positions. Among the most prominent women geologi
 sts in this period were the charismatic Gertrude Elles and Ethel Wood\, tw
 o Newnham-College-trained researchers who would collaborate on the epochal
  </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; color: rgb(36\
 , 36\, 36)\;">Monograph of British Graptolites</span><em style="background
 -color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; color: rgb(36\, 36\, 36)\;">(1901–1918)\,
  edited by Charles Lapworth. Classifying and illustrating these tiny\, pen
 cil-scratch-like invertebrates was a technical challenge\, but one with im
 mense importance for biostratigraphy — and a subject so far largely over
 looked by historians of science. Drawing on the Sedgwick Museum archives\,
  this talk explores how Elles\, Wood\, and Lapworth made graptolites newly
  'readable'. In the process\, we will see how they wrestled with obscure p
 rinting technologies\, advocated for more 'objective' methods in palaeonto
 logy\, and imagine what it meant to be a woman geologist in the modern wor
 ld. </em></p>
LOCATION:Tilley Lecture Theatre\, Department of Earth Sciences and online
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