Seth Eugene Meek [SEP] place of death
Seth Eugene Meek
Seth Eugene Meek (April 1, 1859, Hicksville, Ohio – July 6, 1914, Chicago) was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes. Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama.
He often collaborated with Charles H. Gilbert, and in 1884 on a collecting trip through the Ozarks, they discovered a new species, "Etheostoma
Works (selection).
- "The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama", 1916 (with Seth Eugene Meek)
- "The Marine Fishes of Panama", 1923 (with Seth Eugene Meek)
- "Fishes of Chesapeake Bay", 1928 (with William Charles Schroeder)
- "Cold-blooded Vertebrates: Part I. Fishes", 1930 (with Charles Whitney Gilmore & Doris Mable Cochran)
- "A Descriptive Catalog of the Shore Fishes of Peru", 1946
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