Fielding Bradford Meek

Fielding Bradford Meek ( born December 10, 1817 in Madison, Indiana, † December 22, 1876 in Washington DC) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

Fielding Bradford Meek was born the son of a lawyer in Madison, Indiana. His ancestors came from Ireland. When he was three years old, his father died. Like many of his colleagues later learned Meek his extensive scientific knowledge, self-taught. During his childhood and youth he collected and studied mainly fossils. After school he learned a commercial profession before his scientific career.

From 1848 he worked for the United States Geological Survey in Iowa and then in Wisconsin and Minnesota. From 1852 to 1858 he worked as an assistant to the American paleontologist James Hall in Albany, New York. On behalf of Hall, he examined in 1853, together with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, the Badlands in South Dakota and Nebraska and brought back a rich selection of valuable fossils. In 1858 he went to Washington DC to the Smithsonian Institution. On December 22, 1876, he died in Washington, D.C. tuberculosis

Meek was a member of many learned societies; among others, the National Academy of Sciences and founded by William Stimpson Megatherium Club. With his colleague Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, he published several scientific papers.

Publications

A selection of his catalog raisonné:

• Descriptions of New Species of Gastropoda and Cephalopoda from the Cretaceous formation of Nebraska Territory (1856 ); Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, together with
• Descriptions of New Organic Remains from the Cretaceous Rocks of Vancouver 's Iceland (1858 )
• Check -List of the Invertebrate Fossils of North America; Cretaceous and Jurassic (1864 )
• Paleontology of the Upper Missouri ( 1865); Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, together with
• Descriptions and Illustrations of Fossils from Vancouver 's and Sucia Islands and other Northwestern Localities (1876 )