Catherine Raisin, a role-model professional geologist

This is a PDF version of an article published in Geology Today© 2003. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. The illustrations have been removed.This article discusses the life and career of British geologist Catherine Raisin (1855-1945), especially her time teaching at Bedford College (where she was Head of Geography, Head of Botany, and Head of Geology, and became the first woman appointed as Vice-Principal of a college in 1898)