Re: paleonet Defn of a Curator

[f.j.lindemann@xxxxxxxxxx]

At 00:09 13.12.2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Was the term curator in science given to ridicule
>scientists, when collectors of rocks and bones were
>thought mad and stupid then, or was there a real
>reason :)

The Latin word "cura" means care, charge, management, attention. A curator 
is someone to whom care or charge of anything has been entrusted.

fjl


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