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Mary Buckland, née Morland (born Abingdon 1797, died 1857), was a British palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator. ==Life== She was born in 1797 in Sheepstead House, Abingdon, to Benjamin Morland, a solicitor. Her mother died when she was a baby, and her father remarried, producing a large family of half-brothers and sisters. She spent much of her childhood in Oxford, living with a physician, Sir Christopher Pegge, and his wife. The following romantic anecdote (recorded by Miss Caroline Fox in her journal for 8 October 1839) is told about how Mary met her future husband William Buckland: In 1825〔 Mary Morland married William Buckland, who later became Dean of Westminster. Their honeymoon was a geological tour lasting a year, including visits to famous geologists and geological locations across Europe. They had nine children, including Frank Buckland. The children were exposed to their parents collections of fossils from an early age and at the age of 4 Frank could successfully identify the vertebrae of an ichthyosaurus. Mary was an accomplished illustrator,〔 producing illustrations for Georges Cuvier, a French palaeontologist, and for a work by William Conybeare, a British geologist. She also made models of fossils, and labelled fossils for an Oxford museum. She studied marine zoophytes using microscopes. She repaired broken fossils according to her husband's instructions. She assisted her husband by writing as he dictated, producing illustrations for his books, and taking notes of his observations. She assisted him when he was commissioned to contribute a volume to ''The Bridgewater Treatises''. His contribution in 1836 was a mixture of geological and palaeontological science and philosophical reflections. It is difficult to assess Mary Buckland's contributions to science, because so much of her work was involved with that of her husband.〔 We know a lot about William Buckland from the biography written by his and Mary's daughter Elizabeth. Mary Buckland amassed a vast collection of fossils and other specimens. She also taught in a village school in Islip, near the family's country home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Buckland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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