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Clippings on Miss Joan Proctor's appointment as Curator of Reptiles, September 1923

CUR/3/3/3/36 • Part • 1923-09-02 - 1923-09-04

SUMMARY: Multiple newspaper clippings from early September 1923 report Miss Joan Proctor’s appointment as Curator of Reptiles at the London Zoo/London Zoological Gardens, noting her prior work with reptiles and aquarium rockwork design. One clipping ...

London Zoo, London, England, Worcester, South Pacific, British Museum, London Zoological Gardens, Liverpool, Europe, Regent's Park, South Kensington

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CUR/3/3/3/35 • Part • 1923-10-06

CONTENT: Vol VIII Nº 94 NOVEMBER, 1923 OVERSEAS Eve Among the Serpents By Francis Yeats-Brown SOFT-VOICED, delicate-handed young lady of twenty- five was sitting at a desk by the window of a basement room in the Natural History Museum of South Kens...

Press clippings on Miss Joan Procter as Curator of Reptiles and London Zoo aquarium

CUR/3/3/3/34 • Part • 1923-09-04 - 1923-10-06

SUMMARY: Press cuttings profile Miss Joan Procter/Proctor as Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological Gardens of London, noting her expertise, refusal of a New York offer, and her design work for the new aquarium. Items also mention E. G. Boulenger’s ap...

Zoological Gardens of London, London, England, New York, United States of America, Paris, France, Europe, Nottingham, Calcutta, Regent's Park, South Kensington, British Museum of Natural History, Mappin Terraces, London Zoo

The Sketch: The New Reptile Curator at Home (29 August 1923)

CUR/3/3/3/33 • Part • 1923-08-29

SUMMARY: Magazine clipping from The Sketch featuring photographs and captions about Miss Joan B. Procter’s appointment as Curator of Reptiles at the "Zoo," succeeding Mr. E. G. Boulenger, with notes on her work at the British Museum and aquarium desi...

St. Paul's School for Girls, British Museum, London, England, the "Zoo", new Aquarium

New Reptiles at the Zoo; Girl Chosen to Take Charge of Snakes at London Zoo

CUR/3/3/3/32 • Part • 1933-07-21 - 1933-07-20

SUMMARY: Clippings report new arrivals at the Regent's Park Reptile House—Hardwick's Mastigures, a pigmy chameleon, a blue-tongued lizard, and several snakes—and note their behaviors and origins. Another article from the Public Ledger (Philadelphia) ...

Reptile House, London Zoo, London, England, Regent's Park, Baluchistan, Northern India, Brazil, South America, India, Asia, Indo-Chinese, Philadelphia, United States of America, Zoological Gardens

Newspaper clippings on Joan Proctor's appointment as reptile curator (July 1923)

CUR/3/3/3/31 • Part • 1923-07-23 - 1923-07-28

SUMMARY: Press cuttings report Miss Joan Proctor’s appointment as curator of reptiles at the London Zoo, describe her lifelong interest in reptiles and her unusual pets, and note her experiments with axolotls. Additional New Zealand clippings reprise...

Dundee, Scotland, London Zoo, London, England, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, New Zealand, Dunedin, London Zoological Gardens, Serpentine

Newspaper clippings on Miss Joan Procter appointed curator of reptiles (1923)

CUR/3/3/3/30 • Part • 1923-08-18 - 1923-08-05

SUMMARY: Press clippings report that Miss Joan Procter, aged 25, has been appointed curator of reptiles at the London Zoological Gardens, highlighting her lifelong expertise with snakes and her prior work at South Kensington. Coverage includes detail...

London, England, London Zoological Gardens, South Kensington, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, Winnipeg, Canada, New York, United States of America, Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa, South America, England, Arizona, U.S.A.

A Woman Herpetologist (The Woman's Leader, 10 August 1923)

CUR/3/3/3/29 • Part • 1923-08-10

SUMMARY: Article by Chrystabel Procter profiling her sister Joan B. Procter's lifelong dedication to herpetology, including training under Dr. G. A. Boulenger, publications, and society fellowships. It notes her upcoming role as Curator of Reptiles a...

St. Paul's Girls' School, Natural History Museum, London, England, Zoological Gardens, Bombay, New York, United States of America, Leiden, Netherlands, Mappin Terraces, London Zoo, Aquarium

Letter from M. Stocks (The Woman's Leader and The Common Cause) to Joan, 23/07/1923

CUR/3/3/3/28 • Part • 1923-07-23

SUMMARY: M. Stocks, joint editor of The Woman's Leader and The Common Cause, requests a short (700–900 words) account of the recipient's work at the Zoological Society, noting the paper cannot pay contributors. A postscript recalls they were at schoo...

62, Oxford Street, W.1., 15 Deans Yard, Westminster

Press cuttings: Miss Joan Procter appointed Curator of Reptiles at the Zoo

CUR/3/3/3/27 • Part • 1921-08-04 - 1923-08-03

SUMMARY: Newspaper cuttings (1921–1927) report Miss Joan Procter’s appointment and work as Curator of Reptiles at the Zoo, highlighting her background at the Natural History Museum and her early interest in reptiles. Articles also note her education ...

London, England, South Kensington, Kensington, Zoological Gardens, Zoo, Natural History Museum, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, St. Paul's School for Girls

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