In 1881, Motokichi Namiye, then assistant curatorin the Imperial University, published the first list of Japanese fishes by a native author.
Finally, and belonging to a younger generation of palaeontologists, is to be named Arthur Smith Woodward, curator of vertebrate palaeontology of the British Museum.
It was then or never for us, however; and when the necessary argument had been presented, the curator not only let us in, but remained with us to point out all the objects of interest, showing a great deal of pride in the collection.
He seems to have been a museum man by birth, for at an early age we find him listed as curator of ornithology in the Essex Institute of Salem, Mass.
He was a regular army officer, at the time curator of the Army Medical Museum in Washington and a bacteriologist of some repute.
He took refuge in London, where he was welcomed by men of science, and more especially by the celebrated Boyle, under whose auspices he was introduced to the Royal Society, of which he was appointed Curator at an annual salary.
Boyd, Curator of the Spanish-Colonial Department in the Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe.
Ahlborn is associate curatorin the Division of Cultural History in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology.
Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Practical Geology, London.
But the curatordesignate shirked the too responsible honour.
The place, indeed, was fixed, at Keswick; thecurator named.
One of his plans was to form a jewel-museum in which the curator should exhibit, with lens and leisurely explanations, such treasures to admiring groups of visitors.
This made me think of the mountains of white quartz I had seen on the Congo, and to wonder whether the Curator was indulging in unseemly levity.
The rock contained no visible gold, and the Curator who guided me round had the assurance to say that the quartz where gold was not visible was more appreciated than that which showed nuggets.
Just at this juncture the Curator told me that one of these apparently valueless rocks was about to be crushed and panned for our instruction.
He became the first honorary curator of the natural history department of the museum, and worked until 1829 when he was appointed assistant secretary and curator of the Geological Society of London at Somerset House.
The permission from the rector must be obtained each semester, but from the curator only when a new subject is chosen.
A written permission must be obtained from the curator of the university on presentation of a satisfactory diploma, a passport, and, by Russian applicants, a written permission from the police authorities to study in Germany.
I did not care about going back, for my recent trip had been a very rough one; but I was heartily sick of Cape Town, and so I went round to the hotel where the two men were staying, taking the note which the Curator had sent me.
In endeavouring to obtain some knowledge of them, we shall take as our guide the learned curator of the Archaeological Museum of Saint-Germain.
Subsequent thereto he was made curator of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy of Christiania university.
Returning with much valuable geological and zoological data, he was appointed curator of the natural history museum at Bergen.
I have seen Haploceros in Alaska as well as in British Columbia, and expect that my friend Mr. John Fannin, curator of the British Columbian Museum, is right in inferring that the goats go as far north as the mountains do.
Beddoes, the Curator of the Shrewsbury Museum, has given me some archaeological information concerning the stone.
Strickland Curator and Lecturer on Zoology in the University of Cambridge.
The duties of the curator are like those of a librarian.
Fleming ascurator of astronomical photographs in the Harvard Observatory is noteworthy because hers is the first woman's name to be placed along with the officers in the university catalogue.
The Government appointed him Curator of the Patent Museum at South Kensington; the Queen granted him a pension on the Civil List for 200L.
But it is probable that Denis Papin, the banished Hugnenot physician, for some time Curator of the Royal Society, was the first who made a model steam-boat.
She had so hoped to surprise Mr. Cole, the Curator of the Museum, with rare pieces of ancient pottery such as had never before been brought from the Arctic; and here were only four pieces of glassware.
For ten minutes there was silence in the room, save for the click of specimens as the Curator turned them over.
I have a guess as to what they are made of, but your friend the Curator will know.
Also Curator in Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
For many years Curatorof the Peabody Museum of Ethnology, at Cambridge, Mass.
Rolleston, Lee's Reader in Anatomy andCurator of the Museum.
A magistrate or curatorwith a set of officials under him presided over each region.
II IN ROOM B Five minutes later the Curator was at the 'phone calling up Police Headquarters.
Where was the Curatorwhen you forced open that door behind the tapestry?
A momentary silence, which the Inspector broke by saying: "Later I called the Curator in, and he also recognized the bow as belonging to the museum.
Finally the Curator paused, and stealing another look at that white head, remarked anxiously: "Have you not grown gray very suddenly?
As the three walked back the way they had come, the Curator glanced earnestly at the detective, who seemed to have fallen into a kind of anxious dream.
Finding that his attempts to meet the older woman's eye only prolonged the suspense, the Curator addressed her quietly, and in sympathetic tones inquired whose child this was and how so dreadful a thing had happened.
It was hardly a favorable moment for further questioning, but theCurator in his anxiety could not refrain from saying: "Who is she?
Meanwhile the senior detective had drawn the Curatorto one side.
Perhaps the Curator was curious and tried his hand at a little detective work on his own account.
Fortunately he made a friend of the Curator of the Museum, and Mr. Heinemann joined him for a time.
Then the Curator offered me the use of his studio.
He expended much energy in sending some old pieces of silver to the doctor at Marseilles and the Curator at Ajaccio, who had been kind to him.
On making application, very recently, to examine these pictures, I ascertained that they were never placed in the care of the curator of the British Museum, but were the private property of the late Dr.
Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles in the New York Zoological Park, was sought and we thus obtained the fourth pose, which is shown in the photographs published herewith.
Wagner, while examining our mineral collections saw the large bones in the Reptile Hall and remarked to the Curator of Mineralogy that he had seen many similar bones near his ranch in the Red Deer Cañon of Alberta.
A series of three experiments by Mr. Christman on the pose of Tyrannosaurus, under the direction of the author and Curator Matthew, were not satisfactory.
Bedini is curator of mechanical and civil engineering in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology.
The Italian curator of the museum that was being formed in the old hospital drew near and explained to Dorothy in French that this was the tombstone of an English knight.
The curator smiled politely; being a Latin, he certainly did not believe her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
