most completely-known species of the genus, is the basis upon which most reconstructions of the Paraceratherium genus are made. Pavlova was made a professor at Moscow State University in 1919. Her extensive work in describing and tracing the genetic lines of many large mammals was derived from the study of collections that would be included in a palaeontological museum at Moscow State University that she was instrumental in founding. In 1926, the museum was named jointly for her and her husband, in recognition of their research. He died in 1929. She went on her last geological expedition in 1931, to the city of Khvalynsk, located in Russia near the Volga River. At the age of 84, Maria Vasilievna Pavlova died on December 23, 1938, in Moscow. She was buried in the Novodevichiy cemetery. Professional memberships Pavlova was a member of many Russian scientific organizations, including: Moscow Society of Naturalists Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society (Honorary member) Moscow Society of Amateurs of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography Russian Geographical Society Uralian Society of Amateurs of Natural Sciences Novorossiysk Society of Naturalists Russian Mining Society The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (honorary member) Notes References 1854 births 1938 deaths Paleontologists from the Russian Empire Soviet paleontologists Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Woman scientists from the Russian Empire Women paleontologists University of Paris alumni Expatriates from the Russian Empire in France People from Kozelets