Ernst Mayr has been appointed professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Agassiz Professor of Zoology, it was announced yesterday.
Mayr is currently Curator of the Whitney-Rothschild Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His appointment here becomes effective July 1.
He is an authority in broad areas of Zoology, particularly Zoological genetics, in addition to his original specialty. Orutthology.
Mayr has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Columbia, the University of Washington, and the University of Pavia in Italy. He is the author of "Systematic and the Origin of the Species."
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