Fielding Bradford Meek
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Meek, Fielding Bradford
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Following his field work with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden in the American West, Fielding Bradford Meek, 1817-1876, was a paleontologist at the Smithsonian from 1858 to 1876. He lived with his cat in a tiny room under the stairs in the North Tower of the Smithsonian Castle from 1858 until his death. In his early years he had taken an interest in fossil bones and made paleontology his specialty. Meek participated in 14 expeditions and surveys and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 17, Folder: 2
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1850s
- Standard number
- 1329 or AI-1329
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Paleontologists
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Portraits
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7395
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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