Re: paleonet Defn of a Curator

[Silvio Renesto <renesto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10.25 13/12/02 +0100, you wrote:
>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 :)
>
>As a curator, I don't know if I am a scientist, but I can't understand why 
>I should feel "ridicule"  ...

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