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Cutting from the *Sunday School Chronicle*
Address of Publication
26. 7. 23
Issue dated.
Notes of the Week.
Here is another cherished idea gone
overboard—that no woman can stand
anything "creepy"! Miss Joan
Procter, who has just been appointed
Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological
Gardens, is so fond of snakes and
things that for some time she worked
in the Reptile Department at the
British Museum as a voluntary assis-
tant to Dr. Boulenger. She keeps her
own private collection in her garden,
and is now helping Dr. Boulenger
with the new aquarium.
Cutting from the *Liverpool Echo*
Address of Publication
20. 7. 27
Issue dated.
Queen of the Snakes.
At the age of twenty-five Miss Joan
Procter has been appointed curator of rep-
tiles at the Zoo. She is one of the greatest
snake experts of the day. Her grandfather
was a famous entomologist. Miss Procter,
at the age of ten had her first snake as a
pet. She also kept many lizards, some of
them remarkably tame. One day she re-
ceived a large and valuable crocodile as a
present, and took it to Dr. C. A. Boulenger,
the famous chief of the department of
reptiles at the Natural History Museum at
South Kensington, who was so astonished
at her knowledge of ophiology that he
offered to train her in the subject when she
left St. Paul's School. She became his
assistant when she was eighteen, and when
he resigned she was appointed to the post.
Miss Procter read her first paper, on the
pit snake, before the Zoological Society at
the age of nineteen. She was made a
Fellow of the society at twenty. She was
elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society
a fortnight ago. She is also a fellow of
the Zoological Society of Bombay, and last
year was offered a remunerative post by
the Zoological Society of New York.
Cutting from the *Irish Independent*
Address of Publication Dublin
24 7 23
Issue dated.
Miss Joan Proctor, F.L.S.,
Who has been appointed Curator of
Reptiles at the Zoological Gardens.
Her last post was that of Chief of
the Department of Reptiles at the
Natural History Museum, South
Kensington.
Photo, Central Press.
Cutting from the *Newcastle Chronicle*
Address of Publication
20. 7. 27
Issue dated.
ONE WOMAN'S SPECIALITY.
Not to every woman would the curatorship
of reptiles at the Zoological Gardens appeal,
but to have received the position is an honour
decidedly. This honour has fallen to Miss
Joan Proctor, who will take up her work in
the autumn. Educated at St. Paul's School
for girls, Miss Proctor has been in the
reptile department of the British Museum
for seven years, and may be said to know
her job backwards. Not content with study-
ing the habits, anatomy, and little ways of
reptiles in working hours, she keeps a col-
lection of the living creatures at home. She
is at the moment designing rockwork for the
aquarium tanks at the Zoo.
Cutting from the *Evening Dispatch, Edinburgh*
Address of Publication
20. 7. 27
Issue dated.
Miss Joan B. Proctor, F.Z.S., who has been ap-
pointed curator of reptiles to the London Zoo-
logical Gardens, has been interested in such creat-
ures since she was seven years old. At that age
she had a crocodile as a pet, which she cared for
during its two years of life.
Cutting from the *Worcester Daily Times*
Address of Publication
20. 7. 28
Issue dated.
WOMAN CURATOR.
Miss Proctor is to be Curator of Reptiles at
the Zoo in succession to Mr. Boulenger, who
becomes Curator of the new Aquarium now in
process of completion. Miss Proctor, educated
at St. Paul's School for Girls, has worked in
the Reptile department of the British Museum
since 1916, and was at one time Mr. Boulenger's
assistant.
