Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.

Dorothea Bate

FGS
Bate in Valletta, Malta, 1934
Born8 November 1878
Carmarthen, Wales
Died13 January 1951(1951-01-13) (aged 72)
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
EducationAt home and Natural History Museum, London
Occupations
  • Palaeontologist
  • archaeozoologist
Known forDiscovery and identification of animal fossils
AwardsWollaston Fund
Scientific career
InstitutionsNatural History Museum, London
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