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As curator of Experiments to the Royal Society he was responsible for demonstrating many ideas sent in to the Society, and there is evidence that he would subsequently assume some credit for these ideas.
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The original Charter provided for " two or more Operators of Experiments, and two or more clerks "; as the number of books in the Society's collection grew, it also became necessary to employ a curator.
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He was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire.
Much of Hooke's scientific work was conducted in his capacity as curator of experiments of the Royal Society, a post he held from 1662, or as part of the household of Robert Boyle.
He was curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1831, resigning in 1841 to become Professor of Natural History at Marischal College, Aberdeen.
In 1841 he travelled to India to become the curator of the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.
In 1856, he was appointed curator of the Royal Cartographic Institute of Prussia.
Colonel Thomas Bushell of the Royal American Mounted Police leads the search for the painting, accompanied by its former curator Dr. Kathleen Flannery and Captain Samuel Stanley.
In 1879 he joined the staff of the Royal Zoological Museum in Leiden, becoming curator between 1884 and 1897.
They had four children: Hans Leo, scientist administrator at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U. S. A .; Johan Christopher, anesthesiologist, Serafimer Hospital, Stockholm ; Ursula Katarina, Ph. D., curator at The Royal Collections, The Royal Court, Stockholm, Sweden ; and Marie Jane, Chemical Engineer, Melbourne, Australia.
He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Keiller sent the remains to the curator of the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom he felt would appreciate the find.
She join the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1929 as a " second ssistant draftsman " and became its first curator of textiles in 1939.
She start working at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1929 as a second assistant " draftsman " and became its first curator.
* Charles Trick Currelly-Founder and first curator of the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Commission has a national role in the management of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales as the originator, curator and supplier of authoritative information for individual, corporate and governmental decision-makers, researchers and the general public.
Mills, former curator at the Royal Ontario Museum.
He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Royal Herbarium.
Some of the fossils were sent to William Clift the curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons ; he identified some of the bones as the remains of hyenas larger than any of the modern species.
Bartsch joined the staff of the Royal Court Library in Vienna in 1777, after studying engraving at the Vienna Kupferstecheracademie, and became Head curator of the print collection in 1791.
Francis Hauksbee, curator of instruments for the Royal Society of London, made the earliest report of electric wind in 1709.
While residing with his father at Lincoln's Inn Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural history and an interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when William Clift was curator.
In 1867 he became a curator in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, and produced a Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera ( 1871 ; Supplement 1877 ).
In 1703 he was appointed curator, instrument maker and experimentalist of the Royal Society by Newton, who had recently become president of the society and wished to resurrect the Royal Society ’ s weekly demonstrations.
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Prior to his arrival at New Harmony, he served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1949 until his death he was curator of manuscripts for the Washington State Historical Society.
In 1967, under the leadership of Oliver Vickery, curator of the Banning House, and Joan Lorenzen, the State of California purchased the Drum Barracks, with the Society retaining responsibility for maintenance and operation of the barracks as a historic site.
He was offered the position of curator at the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1841.
In India, Blyth was poorly paid ( the Asiatic Society did not expect to find a European curator for the salary that they could offer ), with a salary of 300 pounds per year ( which was unchanged for twenty years ), and a house allowance of 4 pounds per month.
From 1843 to 1852 he was assistant curator / librarian to the Linnean Society.
From 1986 to 1988, she served as a guest curator at the New-York Historical Society and was responsible for the museum's exhibit commemorating the bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution.
Determined to stem these threats by the force of public awareness and scientific endeavour, Edwards became a tireless public advocate for the research and preservation of the ancient monuments and, in 1882, co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund ( now the Egypt Exploration Society ) with Reginald Stuart Poole, curator of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.
In the following, he was delegate of the Prussian Regional Synod, head of the Presbyteries of the Court, curator of the Reformed College, member of the Society for the Betterment of Detainees and participated at the German Juristical Congress.
In 1880, he became assistant in charge of the collection of birds and mammals in the Boston Society of Natural History, and in 1885 became curator of mammals and birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he served until his death, though after 1900 he cared for birds alone, and he left his position at the Boston Society of Natural History in 1887.
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 first signs of an official museum with a curator occurred when the Dutch Society of Science, founded in 1752, started to rent the Prinsenhof room of the city hall in 1754 for its meetings and began to furnish it as an Cabinet of curiosities.
In 1777 the Society moved its overflowing collection to a renovated house on the Grote Houtstraat, where the new young curator Martin van Marum would live the rest of his life.
She volunteered as the President of the Wasilla-Knik-Willow Creek Historical Society, and was the curator of the Wasilla and Knik museums.
He also served as curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, and established a laboratory at the Norwood-Hyatt House in 1879 for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts.
Martin was the curator of the museum of the Zoological Society of London from 1830 to 1838, when he lost his appointment due to financial cutbacks.
In 1826 he was appointed house-secretary and curator to the Geological Society of London, and for many years he rendered important services in editing and illustrating the Transactions of the Society.
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Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.
For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum.
Collini was the curator of the " Naturalienkabinett ", or nature cabinet ( a precursor to the modern concept of the natural history museum ), in the palace of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria at Mannheim.
The first curator was John Smith.
In 2009, Sarah Glass, curator of red pandas and special exhibits at the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee, was appointed as coordinator for the North American Red Panda Species Survival Plan.
The first White House guidebook was produced under the direction of curator Lorraine Waxman Pearce with direct supervision from Mrs. Kennedy.
The system was refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.
The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 – 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.
According to the transportation curator at the Henry Ford Museum, Robert Casey, the Jeep Cherokee ( XJ ) was the first true sport utility vehicle in the modern understanding of the term.
The print was investigated by the museum ’ s curator after he heard an anecdote from a cinema club manager expressing surprise at the length of a print of Metropolis he had viewed.
However, after 1826, when Champollion was a curator in the Louvre he did offer Young access to demotic manuscripts.
A Smithsonian curator described it as " priceless " because it was " irreplaceable ", although it was reported to be insured for $ 250 million.
The first curator of the Hall of Fame was Dr. Bruce Conforth, a former folk musician, rock musician, and artist who was also a professor of folklore, ethnomusicology, American culture, and blues music at the University of Michigan.
It was organized by Hall of Fame museum curator James Henke who, according to the hall, " compiled the list with input from the museum ’ s curatorial staff and numerous rock critics and music experts.
He was also a benefactor of the Western artist Harold Dow Bugbee, who became curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas in 1951.
Art historian and curator James Sweeney notes that when Chagall first arrived in Paris, Cubism was the dominant art form, and French art was still dominated by the " materialistic outlook of the 19th century ".
" Astaire also had this to say to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art: " Ginger was brilliantly effective.
Sachs, the associate director and curator of prints and drawings at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was referred to in those days as a collector of curators.
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