Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Bate
FGS
Dorothea Bate FGS
	Bate in Valletta, Malta, 1934
Born	8 November 1878; Carmarthen, Wales
Died	13 January 1951 (aged 72); Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
Education	At home and Natural History Museum, London
Occupations	Palaeontologist; archaeozoologist;
Known for	Discovery and identification of animal fossils
Awards	Wollaston Fund
	Scientific career
Institutions	Natural History Museum, London

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.^[3]

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Dorothea Bate FGS
Bate in Valletta, Malta, 1934
Born	8 November 1878^[2] Carmarthen, Wales
Died	13 January 1951(1951-01-13) (aged 72)^[2] Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
Education	At home and Natural History Museum, London
Occupations	Palaeontologist archaeozoologist
Known for	Discovery and identification of animal fossils
Awards	Wollaston Fund^[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Natural History Museum, London