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Mead died on 13 February 2003 at the Mead Ranch. The majority of his book collection was donated to the Los
Angeles County Museum, with many of the most valuable books being donated to the
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and spectacular minerals. He was also a book collector, especially of natural history titles, basing his collection around the collection of
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are grown on the 1,300 acres (530 ha) ranch. He also became interested in conservation, and in 1990 the ranch was placed under a
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prints. He also added to his father's collections of
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Mead was honored in the names of the following taxa:
446:"The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database"
184:Collection Building in Ichthyology and Herpetology
34:and museum curator who was the director of the
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145:conservation easement
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318:Scyliorhinus meadi
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164:Gadiformes
123:Later life
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262:Bertelsen
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