EXCERPT from part of CHAPTER 5 of Jurassic Girl Author’s note for this excerpt: This is Mary Anning’s first visit to Elizabeth Philpot’s home. Philpot (1779 – 1857) was an amateur paleontologist in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorsett, U.K. She and Mary spent time together fossil hunting. “Look…
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