. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 63. Importance of the sea as a source of food is illustrated in the new hall of life in the sea. Fishes.—Curator Leonard P. Scliultz has actively continued his research on sharks and has in press three papers dealing with this group and their attacks on man: With Dr. J. A. F. Garrick he has completed a guide to the kinds of dangerous sharks of the world; his documented list of shark attacks for the world will appear with Marilyn H. Malin as coauthor; a forthcoming volume to be published by
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 63. Importance of the sea as a source of food is illustrated in the new hall of life in the sea. Fishes.—Curator Leonard P. Scliultz has actively continued his research on sharks and has in press three papers dealing with this group and their attacks on man: With Dr. J. A. F. Garrick he has completed a guide to the kinds of dangerous sharks of the world; his documented list of shark attacks for the world will appear with Marilyn H. Malin as coauthor; a forthcoming volume to be published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, entitled "Sharks and Survival," will include a section which has been completed by Dr. Scliultz on attacks by sharks as related to the activities of man. He has also completed a paper on the silver hatchetfishes of the Western Atlantic. Associate curator Ernest A. Lachner has in an advanced stage of completion studies of the families Gobiidae, Eleotridae, and Taenioidi- dae, and of the systematics of the diskfishes, family Echeniclae, and their host relationships. Since starting on active duty in January 1963, associate curator Robert H. Gibbs has continued his research on the comparative anat- omy and systematics of the tuna genus Thimnus, on the comparative anatomy and systematics of the family Scombridae, on the systematics and ecology of stomiatoid fishes, on the systematics of the Western Atlantic flying fishes, and on the distribution of surface fishes from the vicinity of the Gulf Stream. During the past year Dr. Gibbs partici- pated in collecting fishes in the fresh and salt waters of Massachusetts, in the fresh waters of Alabama and Florida, and in a transect from the Gulf of Guinea to Bermuda. He has papers in press on the families Astronesthidae, Idiacanthidae, and Melanostomiatidae in volume 4 of the "Fishes of the Western North Atlantic": and is coauthor with Dr. Norman Wilimovsky on the family A
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