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No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Jacobi Theodori Klein Tentamen methodi ostracologicae, sive, Dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum : in suas classes, genera et species, iconibus singulorum generum aeri incisis illustrata : accedit lucubratiuncula de formatione, cremento et coloribus testarum quae sunt cochlidum et concharum : tum commentariolum in locum Plinii Hist. nat. libr. IX, cap. XXXIII, De concharum differentiis : d...
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, Captain Simpson's report and map of wagon road routes in Utah Territory ..
Author:
Simpson, J. H (James Hervey) 1813-1883 Search this
North-west territory : reports of progress : together with a preliminary and general report on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, made under instructions from the Provincial Secretary, Canada / by Henry Youle Hind ... ; printed by order of the Legislative Assembly
Title:
Reports on the North-west territory
Report on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan exploring expedition
Principles of geology, or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants, considered as illustrative of geology / by Charles Lyell ; in three volumes
Title:
Principles of geology
Modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology
Report of the exploring expedition from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the great Colorado of the West, in 1859 : under the command of Capt. J.N. Macomb, Corps of topographical engineers ... / with geological report by Prof. J.S. Newberry ..
Author:
Newberry, J. S (John Strong) 1822-1892 Search this
Macomb, J. N (John N.) 1810 or 11-1889 Search this
Meek, F. B (Fielding Bradford) 1817-1876 Search this
Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876. Search this
Extent:
5.69 cu. ft. (10 document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Diaries
Field notes
Manuscripts
Plates (illustrations)
Date:
1843-1877 and undated
Descriptive Entry:
The collection consists of correspondence 1849-1876, mostly incoming, concerning specimens and geological observations; notebooks, 1846-1872 and diaries, 1871-1875,
resulting from Meek's field work; manuscripts and original plate illustrations; and miscellaneous personal papers, including a catalogue of the Meek library made soon after
his death.
Historical Note:
Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876) was born December 10, 1817, in Madison, Indiana, of Irish Presbyterian ancestry. His father was an eminent local lawyer who died when Meek
was only three years old. Meek's early education in Indiana, and later Kentucky, was constantly interrupted due to ill health. Health problems, including deafness and tuberculosis,
continued to plague him throughout his life. Meek attended good public schools, but was largely self-educated in the natural sciences. His first practical scientific experience
was gained as an assistant in David Dale Owen's U.S. Geological Survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in 1848 and 1849. During 1852-1858 (excepting three summers) Meek
was employed at Albany, New York, by the paleontologist James Hall. The summer of 1853 was spent in the Bad Lands of Nebraska in association with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden,
while those of 1854 and 1855 were spent with George Clinton Swallow's Geological Survey of Missouri. Meek's association with Hall was terminated in 1858 when a dispute arose
over the discovery of the occurrence of Permian fossils in North America.
Meek joined the staff of the Smithsonian Institution in 1858 as the Institution's first full-time paleontologist. In lieu of salary, Joseph Henry allotted Meek living quarters
in the Smithsonian Castle Building. Until his death, Meek continued to live in the Castle, eventually gaining the title of resident collaborator in paleontology. At the Smithsonian
Meek also renewed his acquaintance with F. V. Hayden, joining him on many of Hayden's surveys of the western territories. Meek and Hayden's most notable resulting publication
was Paleontology of the Upper Missouri (1865). Meek also worked for the Ohio Geological Survey under John Strong Newberry, and with Amos Henry Worthen on the Geological
Survey of Illinois. Although Meek was responsible for most of the invertebrate fossil work for the Illinois Survey, the reports were published jointly under the names of Worthen
and Meek. Meek's bibliography contains 106 titles, including those publications written in conjunction with Hayden, Worthen, and others. His most important publication was
his "Report on the Invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country" (1876). Fielding B. Meek died of tuberculosis in his quarters at the Smithsonian
on December 21, 1876.
