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CodePX3542
Dates1878-1951
Person NameBate; Dorothea Minola Alice (1878-1951); Palaeontologist and ornithologist
SurnameBate
ForenamesDorothea Minola Alice
EpithetPalaeontologist and ornithologist
ActivityMuseum Staff: Approached Bird Section at age seventeen for work, persuaded by C W Andrews, Geology Department, to work on Pleistocene cave faunas. Visited Cyprus, 1901, then Crete, later collecting in the Balearics, Sardinia, Malta and Palestine (Mount Carmel 1937) for the Museum. Found pigmy elephant and hippopotamus bones in Crete. Classed as an unofficial scientific worker by the Museum, she later received a small stipend. She was put in charge of Tring Museum from 1948. She was elected an Honorary Lady Member of the B.O.U. in 1910.

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RelationshipsUnmarried
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DF/MIN/1/36/63Bate, Dorothea M 
DF/PAL/100/49/62Bate, Dorothea 
DF/LIB/605/43Dorothea Bate Diaries 
DF/ZOO/200/119/11Bate, Dorothea Minola Alice 
DF/PAL/100/158/7McCown, T D 
DF/ZOO/230/3/10Bate, Dorothea M A  
DF/PAL/100/137/2Howard, Hildegarde 
DF/ZOO/230/22/147Bate, Dorothea M A  
DF/TRI/3005Tring Museum, Officer in Charge: Diaries 
DF/PAL/100/47/53Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/47/217Bate, Dorothea 
DF/TRI/3000/7/13Officer in Charge - Dorothea Bate (died January) then Terence C S Morrison-Scott. Superintendent - C L Rance. 
DF/ZOO/232/6/12/15/6Keeler, Clyde E 
DF/ENT/340/9/2Holland, George P (II) 
DF/TRI/3000/7/11Officer in Charge - Dorothea Bate. Superintendent - C.L. Rance 
DF/PAL/100/47/55Bate, Dorothea 
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/5/14Bate, Dorothea M A 
DF/PAL/100/80/42Bate, Dorothea M A (various) 
DF/ZOO/232/6/7/13/8Wroforth [?], G 
DF/ZOO/232/6/6/1/9Bate, Dorothea M A 
DF/ZOO/232/6/12/1/12Bate, D  
DF/PAL/100/34/78Bate, Dorothea 
DF/ZOO/232/6/12/7/5Despott, Mr 
DF/PAL/100/34/75Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/128/32Hamilton, R W 
DF/PAL/100/34/76Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/82Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/83Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/79Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/81Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/80Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/34/77Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/178Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/179Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/49/61Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/49/63Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/36/56Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/129/13Hardy, E 
DF/TRI/3000/7/12Officer in Charge - Dorothea Bate. Superintendent - C L Rance 
DF/PAL/129/2/1Letter from S H Reynolds, Department of Geology, University of Bristol, to Dorthea Bate 
DF/ZOO/232/6/9/1/11Bate, Dorothea 
DF/TRI/3000/7/10Officer in Charge - J.E. Dandy, then Dorothea. Bate (from November). Superintendent - C.L. Rance 
DF/PAL/100/40/177Bate, Dorothea 
DF/TRI/3000/1Departmental Memoranda 
DF/PAL/104/87Annual Report to Trustees for 1940 
DF/ZOO/230/22/145Escudero, Bartolomie to Bate, Dorothea M A 
DF/PAL/100/38/33Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/175Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/180Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/176Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/174Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/47/54Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/49/64Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/51/44Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/51/45Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/53/51Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/40/181Bate, Dorothea 
DF/ZOO/230/22/139-143Bate, Dorothea M A  
DF/ENT/332/1/72Wolff, Dr T; Wood, C; Woodhouse, L G O; Woodisse, T; Woollett; Wootton, A; de Worms, Dr C; Worthington, Dr E B; Wright, Captain W S; Wyniger, R 
DF/LIB/612/7Special collection reproduction permissions and Exhibition Proposals 
DF/PAL/100/186/23Rogers, E H 
DF/ZOO/232/9/2/18Mammals Section: General Correspondence N 
DF/PAL/140/9/249File labelled 'Miss Bates Pig Notes' 
DF/PH/2/5/1/1Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff 
DF/PAL/107/50File of correspondence and papers relating to Dorothea Bate 
DF/PAL/129/2/2Correspondence between Dorothea Bate and RF Parry, estate manager for The Cheddar Caves, re Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset 
DF/PAL/100/120/17Garrod, D A E 
DF/PAL/100/36/55Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/49/60Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/49/65Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/55/46Bate, Dorothea 
DF/PAL/100/69Correspondence: Outgoing 
DF/ZOO/200/50/313-314Bate, [Dorothea Minola Alice] 
DF/PAL/140/9/247Correspondence and papers relating to fossils in East Africa 
DF/ZOO/232/12/1/3Hayman, Robert William: Correspondence, B 
DF/TR/1/1/25/29Bate, Dorothea [Minola] [Alice] 
DF/PAL/141/170Department of Palaeontology and the Sub-Department of Anthropology scrapbook 
DF/PAL/129/2/3Letter to Dorothea Bate from E Neil Baynes 
DF/PAL/129/2/4Correspondence between Dorothea Bate, Reverend H. Arnold Cook and Mr Kingsley Cook relating to the Port Eynon cave site 
DF/ZOO/238/5/10SF10 Miss D. M. A. Bate  
DF/PAL/129/2Bate, Dorothea: Papers and Correspondence 
DF/ZOO/239/3/2/6Nicholls, AD: bones etc Iron Age midden (GL 1945/40) 
DF/ZOO/239/3/5/23Bate, Miss DMA: hair tracts (GL 1948/126) 
DF/ZOO/239/3/7/6Hatley, AJ: bones for identification (GL 1950/71) 
DF/ZOO/239/3/7/13Richmond, Ian A: shrine bones for identification (GL 1950/120) 
DF/ZOO/200/75/3Correspondence B (general): File 7 
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