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Stanford University, Division of Systematic 

 Biology 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Stanford University, Stanford, Cali- 

 fornia, USA. 

 LOCATION : Near San Francisco. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Richard W. Holm, Director. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1891. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research; ur.iduate 

 and undergraduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Pacific Ocean, 

 San Francisco Bay, Searsville Lake, Felt Lake, Lagunita 

 Lake (temporary), San Francisquito Creek (tempo- 

 rary) ; sandy and silty beaches, rock and gravelly 

 shores brackish, shallow bays, oligotrophic lakes, tem- 

 porary lakes and stream waters in winter and spring 

 only. 



PROVISIONS Ft:>R VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research space 

 for 1 or 2 visitors; fees charged; living cjuarters 

 nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIIiS: Very 



extensive library; large outdoor pond, small aquarium 

 tanks; research collection of higher plants, mollusks, 

 echinoderms, fishes, amphibians, reptiles; identified 

 reference collections of plants, algae, mollusks, echino- 

 derms, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Department of Biology of 

 Stanford University offers cellular physiology, am- 

 phibian morphogenesis, population dynamics, .system- 

 atic botany, systematic malacology, systematic ichthy- 

 ology, fish ecology and population dynamics, limnol- 

 ogy, fish morphology and other courses in biology, 

 zoology, and botany. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Ten at professional level; varying 

 number of technicians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SC:ii:NriFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Fish systematics and morphology; herpetology (G. 



S. Myers and A. E. Leviton) 

 Fish ecology, metabolism and population growth (D. 



E. Wohlschlog) 

 Biosystematics of plants (Ira L. Wiggins, R. W. 



Holm and P. H. Raven) 

 Amphibian morphogenesis and population studies (V. 



C. Twitty) 

 Mollusk systematics (MyraKeen) 

 Cellular physiology (A. C. Giese) 

 Population dynamics and numerical taxonomy (P. R. 



Ehrlich) 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: 



Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin (occasionally pub- 

 lished) 



Occasional Papers of the Division of Systematic Biol- 

 ogy (occasionally published) 



Microento/nnlogy (occasionally published) 



University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. Theodore H. Hubbell. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1903. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Emphasis on North American 

 fauna. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Very extensive library 

 (other facilities indicated under appropriate subdi- 

 visions). 



DIVISIONS OF MUSEUM DESCRIBED: 



1. Division of Fishes 



2. Division of Mollusks 



Division of Fishes 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Reeve M. Bailey, Curator. 



YEAR founded: 1920. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on general 

 ichthyology; graduate instruction. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 visi- 

 tors; no fees charged; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small aquarium tanks; 

 extensive research collections of fishes, about 70% 

 of which are from American fresh-waters ; extensive 

 identified reference collections of Michigan fish fauna. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Ichthyology: investigations 

 and seminars. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Two at professional level; 3 techni- 

 cians. 



important species available for laboratory 

 studies: 

 Cyclostomata: Petroniyzon iihirnuis. Lanipetra la- 



mottei 

 Osteichthyes : Ictaluriis nebulosiis, hepoinis macro- 

 chirus, Alicroplerus Scilmoides, Cyprinus carpio, 

 Semotilus atromaculatus, Piiiiephales notatns 



MAJOR current RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Phylogeny of percoid fishes ( Reeve M. Bailey) 

 Biosystematics of viviparous fishes (Robert R. Miller) 



Division of Mollusks 



EXECUTIVE officer: Henry van der Schalie, Curator 

 and Professor of Zoology. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1907. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on ecology, 

 distribution, life history and basic studies of mollusks. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 1-2 

 visitors ; no fees charged ; living quarters available 

 nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small 



aquarium tanks, special aquarium and vivarium facili- 

 ties ; outstanding research collections of land and 

 fresh-water mollusks — some 200,000 lots of land, 

 fresh-water and marine mollusks are catalogued ; well 

 represented identified reference collections of local 

 fauna and most groups in North America ; machine 



