Fielding Bradford Meek

Fielding Bradford Meek (December 10, 1817 – December 21, 1876) was an American geologist and paleontologist, specializing in the invertebrates. He was elected in 1867 to the American Philosophical Society and in 1869 to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Despite suffering from poverty and tuberculosis during his adulthood, Meek was the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, many in collaboration with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden or Amos Henry Worthen. Quotes A fine Starfish star-fish recently sent to me by Mr. Dyer, from the Cincinnati rocks, presents may features indicating close relations to Palæster granulosus of James Hall (paleontologist) Hall; and yet a critical comparison with his description (he has not yet published a figure of that species), leads me to think it most probably distinct. Article XXXVI.—Descriptions of a few new species, and one new genus, of Silurian Fossils, from Ohio 1872 The American Journal of Science and Arts, 3rd series 104 274–281 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_American_Journal_of_Science.html?id=E2Wf0F2AzPAC&pg=PA277 (quote from pp. 276–277; see Promopalaeaster at stratigrafia.org) Commencing with the earliest explorers of the Upper Missouri, the first intimations of the existence of Cretaceous Cretaceous deposits there, seem to have been derived from specimens obtained by Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis and Clark during their expedition to the sources of the Missouri, in 1804, 1805, and 1806. Subsequently, Thomas Nuttall Nuttall, and later, Stephen Harriman Long Colonel Long, brought from this country a few Cretaceous fossils; and in 1832, the Prince of Neuwied discovered the remains of Mosasaurus Mosasaurus Missouriensis, and other Cretaceous types, at the Big Bend (Missouri River) Great Bend, ... below New Fort Pierre Fort Pierre. ...In 1853, the geographer Joseph Nicollet Nicollet ascended the Missouri to Fort Pierre, collecting on his way up, at the Great Bend and other localities, a number of Cretaceous Molluscan remains. Introductory Remarks xix–lxiv A Report on the Invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country Volume 9 of Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Department of the Interior U.S. Government Printing Office 1876 https://books.google.com/books?id=bamIiJ0QsX4C&pg=PR21 (629 pages; quote from p. xxi) Quotes about Fielding Bradford Meek In 1858 Mr. Meek left Albany, New York Albany and went to Washington, D. C., where he resided until his death. The main building of the Smithsonian Institution had then been only a short time completed and all its rooms were not then needed for its business. The Secretary, Professor Henry, who encouraged the gathering at the Institution of scientific workers, not only gave them all its advantages for study, but he allotted some of the unoccupied rooms as sleeping apartments to such as were without a family. One of these rooms, situated in the main tower, was allotted to Mr. Meek when he first went to Washington, and it remained his only home, as well as his usual working place, until his death. Charles Abiathar White, Biographical Memoir of Fielding Bradford Meek 1817-1876 Biographical Memoirs of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, vol. 4 https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/meek-f-b.pdf 75–91 (quote from pp. 78–79; 1st edition 1877; biographical memoir read before the NAS in November 1896) External links Category:1817 births Category:1876 deaths Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Paleontologists from the United States Category:People from Indiana Category:Geologists from the United States