Meek, Alexander ♂

Education

Student U.C.D. [University College Dundee] 1886-1890.

B.Sc. 17.4.1890.

Birth/childhood

Born 7.4.1865 son of Thomas Meek, journeyman joiner, Broughty Ferry and Elizabeth Scott.

Attended Meadowside Academy, Dundee.

Career

Also at Freiburg University and Durham University - M.Sc. 1896, Hon. D.Sc. 1921.

Lecturer in Agricultural Zoology, Aberdeenshire 1891-1894. Lecturer in Zoology, Armstrong College 1894 - 1906. Professor of Zoology, Armstrong College, Newcastle 1906-1932 (retired). [University lecturer, university professor]

Publications

Essentials of Zoology for students of Medicine and first year students of Science. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922)

Death

Died 2.11.1949.

Sources

• Who’s Who
• Births Reg. Monifieth 1865/51
• Alumnus Chronicle 34 p46