Word: curatorships
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...investigating Mathematician Dodgson's theories in a political field-proportional representation. One day, in a cupboard of the Christ Church treasury, he came across "row upon row of green clothbound boxes, all neatly packed with envelopes." Inside were the meticulous records of Dodgson's entire ten-year curatorship. Apparently, not one of them had been opened since the day he retired...
...herbarium holds 57,000 specimens, and the Ames gift also included an orchid library of 1,800 volumes, and a sum of $68,000 to endow a curatorship. Professor Ames has been a member of the Harvard staff since 1899, with the rank of full professor since...
...with them outside of a museum, instead of by the only sound methods which are books, lantern slides, and hard work. They may be persuaded that mere enjoyment of art is the end desired. They will surely forget that criticism and the knowledge that will fit them for the curatorship of a museum are the worthwhile parts of artistic study. We have here been, we are glad to say, quite successful in excluding anything in our buildings that might suggest art for art's sake, as can be seen by the close relationship, for instance, of the Sargent murals...
...much praise can hardly be given to the curatorship of the last Director, who left the collection in what may be described as perfect physical condition. The Museum is remarkably free from dirt or insect pests. The latter, which are a perpetual menace to museum collections, are entirely absent, and have been long unknown here. There has been no deterioration of specimens--all of which can very rarely be said of a past management when a new Director takes office...
...astonishingly different interest of his was in arms & armor. He knew more about arms & armor than any man in this country and aimed to make the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rank next after those in Paris, Madrid and Denver. Rarely has a man held active curatorship in two great museums, and of such separated fields. A few years ago he helped compile a bibliography of every written reference to fishes, from classical times to the present. It made three great tomes and brought him a National Academy of Science medal...