Notable Geologists Posters “A...-G...-”
for science classrooms and homeschoolers.

Louis Agassiz
Mary Anning
Roy Chapman Andrews

Georges Cuvier
Charles Darwin

Louis Agassiz
b. 5-28-1807; Haut-Vully, Switzerland
d. 12-14-1873; Cambridge, MA

A famous story about a student getting his eyes back was how Agassiz would leave a post grad looking at a fish for months.

Agassiz, who had a medical degree, made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontolgy and zoology; he was also an opponent of Charles Darwin.

• Methods of Study in Natural History

Mary Anning
b. 3-21-1799; Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
d. 3-9-1847; breast cancer

Fossil collector and dealer Mary Anning made important finds in the Jurassic age marine fossil beds near her home. Her contributions to palentology helped to change early 19th century scientific thought about prehistoric life though she was hindered because of her gender and working class background.

FYI - Mary's entire family was involved in the dangerous collection of fossils on the seaside cliffs, and they supported themselves by selling the fossils they found. Her little dog Tray died in a landslide.

Mary Anning quotes ~
• “The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone.”
• “Perhaps you will laugh when I say that the death of my old faithful dog has quite upset me, the cliff that fell upon him and killed him in a moment before my eyes, and close to my feet ... it was but a moment between me and the same fate.”

• Mary Anning at Amazon

Roy Chapman Andrews
b. 1-26-1884; Beloit, Wisconsin
d. 3-11-1960; California

Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer, adventurer and naturalist, wrote “I was born to be an explorer. . . There was never any decision to make. I couldn't do anything else and be happy.” Chapman was the first to discover fosselized dinosaur eggs in Mongolia; he was also became the director of the American Museum of Natural History after his beginning position was a janitor in the taxidermy department.

• Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions

Georges Cuvier, Giclee Print

Georges Cuvier
b. 8-23-1769; Montbéliard (Germany)
d. 5-13-1832

French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist, Georges Cuvier, collaborated on the publication Histoire naturelle des poissons, a description of 5000 species of fishes.

• Cuvier tropic fish print
• Anatomy in Art posters
• Tiger Shark, Galeocerdo Cuvier print

Charles Darwin
b. 2-12-1809; Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
d. 4-19-1882; Down House, Downe, Kent

Charles Darwin was a geologist, zoologist, paleontologist, botanist & writer. His The Origin of Species, was first published in 1859, twenty-three years after his around the world voyage on the HMS Beagle.

Sir Archibald Geikie
b. 12-28-1835; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 11-10-1924; England

Archibald Geikie is noted for his work concern volcanic geology and erosion.

Stephen Jay Gould
b. 9-10-1941; Bayside, NY
d. 5-20-2002; New York City (cancer)

Stephen Jay Gould, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University, was a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship. (based on publisher information)