World Monuments Fund presents their Autumn Lecture programme.

Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures: A Life of Mary Anning

Wednesday 4 November 2009, 7pm

Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

Lecture sponsor: Symm (www.symm.co.uk)

Acclaimed author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, will be discussing her new novel Remarkable Creatures, about the pioneering 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning, who discovered some of the first complete specimens of Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs on the beaches near Lyme Regis, one of which was purchased for Stowe House. Tracy will focus on Anning's connection to place and her tussle with more conventional men of science.

The lecture will be introduced by Miranda Krestovnikoff, co-presenter of BBC2's Coast and wildlife and coastal reporter for BBC1's One Show

Tickets: £10 members, £15 non-members

Book online at:  www.wmf.org.uk/activities or ring 020 7730 5344.