osteologists

As a consciously ‘splendid woman,’ accustomed to overhear herself so denominated by elderly osteologists pursuing their studies in dinner society, Mrs Podsnap could dispense with her daughter.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

I am speaking now of the general body of museum directors and curators; professors and teachers of zoology in our institutions of learning -- a legion in themselves; teachers of nature study in our secondary schools; investigators and specialists in state and government service; the taxidermists and osteologists; and the array of literary people who, like all the foregoing, _make their bread and butter out of the exploitation of wild life_.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

If man had been made by machinery his body would not have been erratically hairy; his toes would long since have been improved away or welded together by an American patentee; nor would there have remained, for our humiliation, those traces of a caudal appendage which some osteologists have thought to perceive in our distinguished anatomy; our brotherhood to the beasts would have been betrayed only by our behaviour.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

At a meeting of the "Scientific Congress" of France, held at Le Puy in 1856, the question of the age of the Denise fossil bones was fully gone into, and in the report of their proceedings published in that year, the opinions of some of the most skilful osteologists respecting the point in controversy are recorded.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

In the course of the last quarter of a century, thousands of them have been submitted to the examination of skilful osteologists, and they have been unable to detect among them one fragment of a human skeleton, not even a tooth.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire and other osteologists, who examined the specimen, denied that it resembled a negro's skull.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

All the findings and the lead coffin itself are being studied and conserved by a team of scientists including osteologists, archaeologists, archaeometallurgists, specialists in medieval textiles, forensic scientists, pedologists, biologists, art-historians and epigraphers.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

a consciously 'splendid woman,' accustomed to overhear herself so denominated by elderly osteologists pursuing their studies in dinner society, Mrs Podsnap could dispense with her daughter.

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841