Download or read book Discovering Dorothea written by Karolyn Shindler and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography presents the untold life of an intrepid woman and early scientific pioneer. Dorothea Bate, paleontologist, geologist, archaeologist and ornithologist, established archeo-zoology as a serious scientific subject. She lacked any real formal education bar a childhood love affair with natural history acquired from the Carmarthenshire countryside in which she grew up. At the age of 17 (in 1895) she talked her way into a job sorting bird-skins in the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington and thus became the first woman to be employed there.