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              Press cuttings on Miss Joan Procter’s appointment as Curator of Reptiles
              Press cuttings on Miss Joan Procter’s appointment as Curator of Reptiles
              CUR/3/3/3/19 · Part · 1923-04-21 - 1927-07-26
              Part of Curators and Keepers

              SUMMARY:
              Newspaper clippings (1921–1927) report Miss Joan Procter (also styled Miss Joan B. Procter/Miss Joan Proctor) being appointed Curator of Reptiles at the Zoo/Zoological Gardens, London, noting her reputation as a leading snake expert. One notice states Mr. E. G. Boulenger will direct the new aquarium, with references to institutions in South Kensington and Bombay.

              CONTENT:
              Cutting from the Leeds Mercury
              Address of Publication
              Issue dated 21.4.23

              THE ZOO GIRL SNAKE EXPERT.

              Miss Joan Procter, who has been
              appointed curator of the reptile
              section at the Zoo. Though she is
              only twenty-five, she is acknow-
              ledged to be one of the greatest
              snake experts in the world.

              Cutting from the Bristol Evening News
              Address of Publication
              Issue dated 20.7.21.

              THE GIRL-SNAKE EXPERT.

              Our London correspondent telegraphs:
              The sphere of women's activity widens
              daily, and this morning we have news of a
              girl snake expert being appointed to take
              charge of reptiles.
              It sounds a job for which there will be
              little feminine competition. Miss Joan
              Proctor's childhood care of snakes as pets
              has brought reward in her present appoint-
              ment.

              Cutting from the Evening Dispatch
              Address of Publication / Edinburgh
              Issue dated 27.7.27

              Girl Snake Expert at the Zoo.
              Miss Joan Proctor, F.Z.S., F.L.S., has been
              appointed Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological
              Gardens, London. Miss Proctor, who is 25 years
              of age, is an acknowledged expert on snakes.

              Eve and the Serpents.
              AT the Zoo in London a girl has been
              appointed curator of reptiles. This
              unusual course has been adopted because
              the lady, Miss Joan Procter, F.Z.S., F.L.S.,
              is one of the leading authorities on these
              rather terrifying creatures. Ever since
              she was a tiny child Miss Procter has
              been fond of reptiles, and her list of pets were
              of a nature to terrify the average person. She
              read every book that dealt with snakes and
              lizards, so that when she came in contact with
              men who made a life study of reptiles they were
              amazed at her knowledge. She adopted her
              present career on leaving school. Miss Joan
              Procter's fame has penetrated over the world.
              The Zoological Society of Bombay made her a
              Fellow, and American experts held her in high
              regard. She is also one of the experts at the
              Museum of Natural History at South Kensing-
              ton, and loves and fondles dangerous serpents
              as an average woman would pet kittens and
              puppies.

              Cutting from the Christian World
              Address of Publication
              Issue dated 26.7.27

              Miss Joan B. Procter, F.Z.S., F.L.S., has
              been appointed Curator of Reptiles at the
              Zoo in place of Mr. E. G. Boulenger, who
              is to take up duties as director of the new
              aquarium. Miss Procter has for several
              years been a worker in the Reptile Depart-
              ment at the British Museum.