Mary Freeman (marine biologist)

Mary Freeman (29 March 1924 - 4 March 2018), known professionally by her maiden name of Mary Whitear, was an English marine biologist and lecturer at University College London from 1947 to 1989.

She was known for her attempts to determine the skin colour of extinct animals such as the ichthyosaur and her meticulous drawings of fossils. Her husband was the zoologist Richard Broke Freeman.[1] In retirement she took up the local history of Tavistock, Devon.[2]

References
  1. "Mary Freeman obituary". The Times. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. "'Outstanding local historian' Mary Freeman dies aged 93". Tavistock Times. Retrieved 25 September 2018.


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