Helen Margaret Muir-Wood

Helen Margaret Muir-Wood (* 1895 in Hampstead ; † January 16, 1968 there ) was a British palaeontologist who specialized in fossil brachiopods .

Live and act

Helen Margaret Muir-Wood was a student of the Professor of Geology and Botany Catherine Alice Raisin (1855-1945) at Bedford College . In 1919 she became part-time and in 1920 part-time geology assistant at the Natural History Museum . In 1944, Muir-Wood was promoted to assistant second class, and in 1955 she became the first woman to become museum deputy keeper. In 1961 she retired, but continued to work regularly at the museum until around 1965.

Muir-Wood was a co-author of the Brachiopods section in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (University of Kansas 1965).

In 1958 she received the Lyell Medal .

Fonts

• with Kenneth Page Oakley Succession of life through geological time , London, British Museum, 2nd edition 1949, 6th edition 1964
• Malayan lower Carboniferous fossils and their bearing on the Visean palaeogeography of Asia . British Museum, London 1948
• A history of the classification of the phylum Brachiopoda . British Museum 1955, reprint 1968.
• with Gustav Arthur Cooper Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda) . Memoir Geological Society of America Volume 81, 1960.
• A Monograph on the Brachiopoda of the British Great Oolite Series . Palaeontographical Society Monographs, London 1936.
• On the Morphology and Classification of the Brachiopod Suborder Chonetoidea . British Museum 1962.

Web links

• Biography at the Natural History Museum