Mead Appointed Head Of Zoology Museum

Giles Mead, director of the Ichthyological Laboratory of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and an expert on the deep-dwelling fish of the open ocean, will become Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology on April 1.

Active in the Gulf and the North Atlantic Fisheries Investigations and the International Fur Seal Investigation, his studies of deep-sea fishes, especially those off the coast of north Japan, have brought to light many new species and varieties. A native of New York, the 32-year-old Mead attended Stanford University where he received the A.B., A.M., and the Ph.D. degrees.