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Medicine, U.S. Air Force; 1968, World Health Organization of the United Na- 

 tions, Marine Intoxicant Informal Committee, Geneva, Switzerland ; 1969, Mem- 

 ber, Joint IMCO, FAO, UNESCO, WMO group of experts on marine pollution, 

 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; 1969, Marine Aqua- 

 culture, Aquarium Systems, Inc., WicklifEe, Ohio. 



Membership in Scientific Societies: American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science — FELLOW ; American Institute of Biological Sciences ; Ameri- 

 can Microscopical Society; American Society of Ichthylologists and Herpetolo- 

 gists ; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ; American Society of 

 Pharmacognosy ; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ; California 

 Academy of Sciences — FELLOW; Hollywood Academy of Medicine (Honorary) ; 

 International Society of Toxinology— FOUNDING FELLOW; Marine Tech- 

 nology Society; New York Academy of Sciences — FELLOW; Royal Society of 

 Tropical Medicine and Hygiene — FELLOW; Royal Zoological Society of New 

 South Wales ; San Francisco Aquarium Society ; Sigma XI ; Society of Experi- 

 mental Biology and Medicine; Society of Systematic Zoology; Washington 

 Academy of Sciences ; Western Society of Naturalists ; Member — Great Barrier 

 Reef Committee of Australia ; National Geographic Society ; International 

 Oceanographic Foundation ; Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos Aires — 

 Miembro Correspondente Extranjero. 



Honors: President, Senior Class, School of Medicine — 1946-47; Listed as: 

 Among 12 outstanding young men in California, by California Junior Chamber 

 of Commerce, 1955 ; Listed in : American Men of Science ; Leaders in American 

 Science ; Who's Who In The West. 



Foreign Travel: Africa — Egypt, Libya, Morocco (Red Sea) ; Asia — India, Ja- 

 pan, Pakistan, Pescadores Is., Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Hong 

 Kong; Europe — Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England France, Germany, Italy, 

 Greece, Lichtenstein, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, 

 USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Estonia, Poland ; North America — 

 Baja California, Canada, Cuba, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nica- 

 ragua, Panama, San Benitos Is., Alaska; Oceania (Islands) — Caroline, Cocos, 

 Galapagos, Hawaiian, Johnston, Line, Marianas, Marshall, Palmyra, Philippine, 

 Phoenix, Ryukus, Wake, French Polynesia ; South America — Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru ; Australia. 



STATEMENT OF BRUCE W. HALSTEAD, M.D., DIRECTOR, WORLD LIFE 

 RESEARCH INSTITUTE, OOLTON, CALIF. 



Dr. Halstead. Thank you, 'Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Chairman, gentlemen of the committee, I would like to direct 

 my remarks specifically to the subject of biomedical oceanography and 

 more directly to the line item in the recommendation of the Commis- 

 sion reports for the establishment of a National Institute of Marine 

 Medicine and Pharmacology. 



With your permission I would perf er not to read this document to 

 you but rather to try and comment on certain sections here that I 

 believe are pertinent to any legislation that might be developed in the 

 future regarding this subject, 



Mr. Rogers. That will be acceptable to the committee. 



Dr. Halstead. I would like to touch for a moment on the subject of 

 the definition of biomedical oceanography because in the mind of many 

 people this represents a new departure from the old line concepts of 

 oceanography. Specifically we are dealing with those areas that relate 

 to the development of new drugs, the utilization of biochemical re- 

 sources, a better understanding of our environment in terms of dan- 

 gerous marine animals, in other words, environmental hazards that 

 relate directly to the man-in-the-sea program, and when I say "man in 

 the sea," I am thinking of "man in the sea" in a very broad sense of the 

 term rather than the project as referred to by the 'Navy. 



