Miss Joan Proctor We regret to record the death on
Sunday of the brilliant young naturalist, Miss Joan Procter, who was famous for her knowledge of snakes. She was only thirty-five. Miss Procter became assistant to Dr. G. A. Boulenger, the Keeper of Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, when she was twenty, and succeeded him in that post. Later she helped Mr. E. G. Boulenger to design the delightful rockwork amid which the fish glide in the new Aquarium at the Zoological Gardens. She took over the Reptile House from Mr. Boulengcr and was responsible for its reconstruction on modern lines. Miss Procter not only knew and loved the strange creatures in her care, but could operate on them when they needed surgical treatment. Her early death after a long illness is a sad loss to science.
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