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Seth Eugene Meek (1859, Hicksville, Ohio, - 6 July 1914, Chicago) was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Hicksville is a village in Defiance County, Ohio, United States. Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Field Museum of Natural History is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. [1] Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama. Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. [2]
He often collaborated with Charles H. Gilbert, and in 1884 on a collecting trip through the Ozarks, they discovered a new species, Etheostoma nianguae, which only lives in the Osage River basin. Charles Henry Gilbert ( 5 December 1859 -1928 was an American ichthyologist who worked with Seth Eugene Meek and David Starr Jordan The Etheostoma are a genus of small freshwater fish Most are native to North America The Osage River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 360 mi (579 km long in central Missouri in the United States. [3] Also with them on that excursion was David Starr Jordan, considered the father of modern ichthyology. David Starr Jordan PhD LLD ( January 19, 1851 &ndash September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist, Ichthyologist
After the Ozarks trip, Meek accepted the post of professor of biology and geology at Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas). The University of Arkansas, often shortened to U of A or just UA, is a public Co-educational Land-grant university [3]
Notes
- ^ Britz, Ralf (2007) "Review of Freshwater Fishes of México by R. R. Miller et al. " Acta Zoologica doi:10. 1111/j. 1463-6395. 2007. 00292. x
- ^ Schultz, Leonard P. (March 1950) "Samuel Frederick Hildebrand" Copeia 1950(1): pp. 2-7, p. 4
- ^ a b Magers, Vince (September 1999) "Icthyology's Golden Age" Missouri Conservationalist Online
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