Australian Museum
Curators and directors
The position of "curator" was renamed "director and curator" in 1918 and from, 1921 "director". In 1948, the "scientific assistants" (the scientific staff) were redesignated "curators" and "assistant curators".

Australian Museum

Section Title: Curators and directors
Table Section Text: The position of "curator" was renamed "director and curator" in 1918 and from, 1921 "director". In 1948, the "scientific assistants" (the scientific staff) were redesignated "curators" and "assistant curators".

Order	Officeholder	Position title	Start date	End date	Term in office	Notes

1	William Holmes	Custodian	16 June 1829	1835	5–6 years	Holmes accidentally shot himself while collecting specimens at Moreton Bay in August 1831.

2	George Bennett	Curator	1835	1841	5–6 years	Bennett was the first to catalogue the museum's collections.

3	The Revd W. B. Clarke	1841	1843	1–2 years

4	William Sheridan Wall	A long-serving collector.

7	Gerard Krefft	1861	1874	12–13 years

8	Edward Pierson Ramsay	1874	1894	19–20 years	Ramsay greatly increased the recruitment of scientific staff within the institution. The museum's catalogues, first documented by Bennett, were the first scientific publications by the museum, but with the addition of science staff and, thereby, research output, in 1890 Ramsay started the Records of the Australian Museum, a publication which continues to the present.

9	Robert Etheridge Jr	1895	1918	23–24 years

Director and Curator	1918	1919

10	Charles Anderson	Director	1921	1940	18–19 years

11	Dr Arthur Bache Walkom	1941	1954	12–13 years

12	Dr John William Evans	1954	1966	11–12 years

13	Frank Talbot	1966	1975	8–9 years

14	Dr Desmond Griffin	1976	1998	21–22 years

15	Dr Michael Archer	1999	2004	4–5 years

16	Frank Howarth	2004	2014	9–10 years

17	Kim McKay AO	2014	present	4–5 years	McKay is the first woman to hold the position.

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George Bennett was the Curator in Australian Museum from 1835, to 1841.

final_sentence: George Bennett was the Curator in Australian Museum from 1835, to 1841.