Fielding Bradford Meek (1817–76)

American palaeontologist. Self-taught in geology. Geological assistant to the federal survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 1848–9. Assistant to the palaeontologist James Hall in Albany, New York, 1852–8. Worked on the geological survey of Missouri, 1854 and 1855. Collaborated with F. V. Hayden on his publications and went on collecting expeditions with him. Worked at the Smithsonian Institution, 1858–76.