The role of women in the history of geology: an introduction, C V Burek and B Higgs • The role of women in geological higher education - Bedford College, London (Catherine Raison) and Newnham College, Cambridge, UK, C V Burek • Fossil hunters, a cave explorer and a rock analyst; notes on some early women contributors to geology, M R S Creese • The contribution of British women to Carboniferous palaeobotany during the first half of the 20th century, H E Fraser and C J Cleal • The role of women in British Quaternary Science, J K Hart • The quiet workforce: the various roles of women in geological and natural history museums during the early to mid-1900s, P N Wyse Jackson and M E Spencer Jones • The historical problems of travel for women undertaking geological fieldwork, C V Burek and M Kolbl-Ebert • Great Expectations: Florence Bascom (1842-1945) and the education of early US women geologists, R M Clary and J H Wandersee • The role of women in the history of geological studies in Ireland, B Higgs and P N Wyse Jackson • The role of British and German women in early 19th century geology - a comparative assessment, M Kolbl-Ebert • Invincible but mostly invisible: Australian women's contribution to geology and palaeontology, S Turner • Rediscovering and conserving the Lower Palaeozoic 'treasures' of Ethel Woods (nee Skeat) and Margaret Crosfield in northeast Wales, C V Burek and J A Malpas • Marie Stopes and the Fern Ledges of Saint John, New Brunswick, H J Falcon-Lang and R F Miller • Etheldred Benett (1776-1845) - the first woman geologist? S Laming and D Laming • Grace Anne Milne (Lady Prestwich) - more than an amanuensis?, J D Mather and I Campbell • Anne Phillips: John's geological companion, N Morgan • Keeping it in the family: the extraordinary case of Cuvier's daughters, M Orr • The influential Muriel Arber - a personal reflection, E Robinson • A knowledge unique: the life of the pioneering explorer and palaeontologist, Dorothea Bate (1878-1951), K Shindler • Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon (1864-1939) - A Scottish researcher in the Alps, M Wachtler and C V Burek • The role of Annie Greenly in elucidation of the geology of Wales, T P T Williams • Nancy Kirk: turning the world of graptolites upside-down, A R Wyatt.