1. Evelyn J. Diary, entry for 19 July 1661: “In which [diving-bell] our curator continued half an hour under water.” Quoted in The Oxford English dictionary (Oxford, 1933), ii, s.v. “Curator”. The event to which Evelyn refers is reported in Birch Thomas, The history of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, from its first rise (4 vols, London, 1756–57), i, 35. Interestingly for the thesis of this article, this first “curator” turns out to have been the Society's humble amanuensis (clerk).
2. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF RESTORATION SCIENCE