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Outline of Edits to female geologist page: Carlotta Maury

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Carlotta Maury focused on tertiary mollusks. She was the first female to work as a palaeontologist within an oil company; she was a petroleum geologist at Royal Dutch Shell. Maury initially taught in universities after attending Cornell University finishing with a PhD in 1902, although she had trouble achieving a full-time position. However, she really wanted to pursue paleontological expeditions. Even though she went on to later be successful, there were still elements of difficulty in her early career, in some ways due to her gender. In the early 1900s there were hardly any women with a career in science. Maury was one of those few women that pursued the sciences.

Early life:

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As a Maury, she was the sixth generation of her family to live in the United States along with her siblings. Her sister, Antonia Maury who became an astronomer and worked as a scientist and a mathematician in Harvard Observatory. Maury’s other sister, Sarah Mytton Maury passed away in her early childhood. Lastly, John William Draper was her brother who went on to be an established surgeon in New York.

Early in Maury’s life, her mother and father gave her a love for nature by exposing her to the wonders of the natural world.

Education:

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From 1891 to 1894, Maury attended Radcliffe College. One of the founding members of Radcliffe College and the first president, Elizabeth Agassiz, played a key role in Maury’s education. Maury received the Schulyer Fellowship and the Sarah Berliner Fellowship while attending Cornell University. Maury later attended Jardin des Plantes in Paris from 1899 to 1900 and Columbia University. After spending a year at Sorbonne for post-graduate studies, in 1902, Maury completed her PhD in paleontology at Cornell University. Griffen Harris was Maury’s mentor throughout her palaeontology education career.

Career:

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In 1925, Maury published "Fosseis Terciarios do Brasil com Descripção de Novas Formas Cretaceas". In this work she describes a various species of mollusks from the northeastern coast of South America. Among these mollusks a majority of them were discovered to be new species. Using her stratigraphy knowledge, she was able to find a correlation of those faunas with similar faunas around the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. The monograph details mostly on fossils from the geological epoch of the Lower Miocene that were found in Rio Pirabas and Bragança to Belém. In both these areas the fossils were located in beds of limestone, and the fossils were primarily internal and external shell casts within the rock.

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Maury had a talent for writing among her many other skills and accomplishments, she documented her expeditions in a very professional manner. She was a fellow of the Geological Society of America. From 1910-1911 Maury had the opportunity to be a part of Arthur Clifford Veatch’s geological expedition to Venezuela as a paleontologist during that time.

She was known by her colleagues for her energy and efficiency as she worked against the prejudice against women scientists.

She was a part of the American Geographical Society. Her last report before she died was published in 1937, on the Pliocene fossils of Acre, Brazil.

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