Scope & content
The Albert D. Mead Files contain course materials, lecture notes, speeches, essays, University committee reports, and anatomical sketches, mostly related to Brown, biology, neurology, evolution, and the Marine Research Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The files date from 1890 to 1956, with the bulk of the material dating from 1890 to 1944. The collection also contains one linear foot of photographs of marine science research teams from Woods Hole.