for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease in 1964, and in 1966 gave the Thomas William Salmon Lectures at the New York Academy of Medicine. MacLean also received the G. Burroughs Mider Lectureship Award from the NIH in 1972. In 1971 MacLean became the Chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior, NIMH, newly opened in Poolesville, Maryland. MacLean was chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior from 1971 to 1985. The laboratory was designed for comparative neurobehavioral research on animals in semi-natural conditions. MacLean retired with the NIH honor of Senior Research Scientist, Emeritus in the Department of Neurophysiology at NIMH. MacLean's ideas were popular among popular authors such as Carl Sagan and Arthur Koestler. Correspondence, photographs, research materials, reports, writings, and audiovisual materials (1936; 1944-1993) held by the National Library of Medicine document the official portion of MacLean's career in brain and behavioral research. He died in Potomac, Maryland on December 26, 2007. Sources National Library of Medicine See also Comparative Neuroscience at Wikiversity Further reading 1913 births 2007 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Yale University alumni University of Washington alumni Harvard Medical School people American physiologists American neuroscientists Behavioral neuroscientists