# otd janeausten lymeregis maryanning

in 1804 wrote to her sister from father, a carpenter, was asked to repair some furniture in their rented house. The Austens thought his estimate of 5 shillings was excessive, 'beyond the value of all the furniture in the room together'.

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2022-09-14

in 1844, physician and naturalist Carl Gustav Carus, accompanying the King of Saxony on an informal tour, called at en route from Weymouth to Exmouth. Visiting shop, Carus was impressed by the fossils for sale, and by her reasonable prices. 1/2

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2022-07-01

Not only in 1829 did William Buckland announce pterosaur at a meeting, but he also described her recognition of bezoar stones as fossil faeces, for which he coined the term 'coprolite'. 1/3

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2022-02-07