Abstract
AIEXAISTDEB MEEK who died on November 2, was born at Broughty Eroughty Eorry in 1865. He was for many years, until his letirement in 1932, professor of zoology at Armstrong College (University of Durham) and directoret the Dove Marine Laboratory. After leaving school, he studied art and then determined to become a scientific worker. He spent a year at the Royal College of Science and then entered University College, Dundee, as a student under Prof. D'Arcy Thompson. For two years after graduating in 1889 he worked at the Gatty Marine Laboratory under Prof. W. C. M'Intosh. He was then appointed county council lecturer in agricultural zoology in Aberdeenshire. He held this post until 1894 when he obtained a lectureship in veterinary anatomy and farm hygiene at what was then the University of Durham College of Science, later to become Armstrong College and, still later, although not in his time, to be merged in the present King's College.
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