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Theodore D. A. Cockerell

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Cockerell was author of more than 2,200 articles in scientific publications, especially on the Hymenoptera, Hemiptera and Mollusca, and on paleontology and various phases of evolution, plus some 1,700 other works, including treatises on social reform and education. He was one of the most prolific
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on 14 February 1948, R.B. Benson observed that Cockerell "acquired the habit of hurrying his ideas and observations into print as soon as he could. The habit persisted throughout his long life, so that almost all his work appeared in the form of short papers".
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who published nearly 4,000 papers, some of them only a few lines long. Cockerell's speciality was the insect order
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Museum and a lecturer on entomology. In 1906 he became a professor of systematic zoology at the
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Cockerell and Wilmatte traveled to the United Kingdom in 1921. While there, they visited the
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Cockerell, T D A (March 1937). "Recollections of a Naturalist IV, The Amateur Botanist".
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of insects alone, some 6,400 of which were bees and some 1,000 mollusks,
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Pollard, Charles Louis; Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison (6 August 1902).
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Desert Dream Fulfilled: The History of the Palm Springs Desert Museum
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He died in 1948, aged 81, and was buried in Columbia Cemetery in
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in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramarine blue chromodorid
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He married Annie Sarah Fenn in 1891 (she died in 1893) and
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Cockerell was born in Norwood, Greater London, and died in
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Cockerell with his wife Wilmatte Porter Cockerell, 1935
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in 1928. A dormitory in the Engineering Quad at the
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Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
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Cockerell" 1032:"Charlotte Ellis of the Sandia Mountains" 405:In an obituary note that appeared in the 264:Between 1891 and 1901, Cockerell was the 1413:New Mexico Highlands University faculty 1162:New York Entomological Society (1893). 1129: 966: 371:This includes descriptions of numerous 317:In 1912, Cockerell first described the 306:. During World War II, he operated the 1423:University of Colorado Boulder faculty 1398:English emigrants to the United States 1030:Eugene Jercinovic (21 February 2008). 283:. While there, he taught and mentored 1304:. University of California, Berkeley. 422:where, according to himself in 1937, 7: 1344:Works by or about T. D. A. Cockerell 939:Central America & South America 1086:The New International Encyclopaedia 975:"Contributions to Coccidology.-II." 915:Paleolepidopterites florissantanus 902:Paleolepidopterites florissantanus 375:taxa, such as the landmark study, 14: 1200:"Four new plants from New Mexico" 482:Taxa named by Cockerell include: 466:University of Colorado at Boulder 272:, professor of entomology of the 109:Middlesex Hospital Medical School 16:American entomologist (1866–1948) 1052:Young, Patricia Mastick (1983). 973:Cockerell, T. D. A. (July 1897) 1143:International Plant Names Index 991:"Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell" 980:. Vol. 31, No. 367, pp. 588-592 277:Agricultural Experiment Station 148:Agricultural Experiment Station 865:Paleolepidopterites destructus 852:Paleolepidopterites destructus 462:American Philosophical Society 420:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 1: 1006:The Valley of the Second Sons 1003:William A Weber, ed. (2004). 460:Cockerell was elected to the 202:Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell 187:Author abbrev. (zoology) 25:Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell 1373:19th-century Jamaican people 993:. Retrieved 5 November 2017. 430:was a distinct species from 177:Author abbrev. (botany) 152:New Mexico Normal University 1326:Works by T. D. A. Cockerell 1439: 1302:Essig Museum of Entomology 442:Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis 377:Some Fossil Insects from 285:Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis 195: 170:Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis 124: 119:Wilmatte Porter Cockerell 30: 1388:American science writers 1296:Zuparko, Robert (2017). 811:Palaeovespa florissantia 474:are named in his honor. 312:Palm Springs, California 281:New Mexico Normal School 268:of the public museum of 1287:Mallis, Arnold (1971). 1039:The New Mexico Botanist 978:The American Naturalist 877:Tortrix? florissantanus 743:Protostephanus ashmeadi 1383:American entomologists 1289:American Entomologists 953: 918: 868: 814: 734: 426:proved that the plant 296:University of Colorado 225: 156:University of Colorado 117:Annie Fenn Cockerell, 37:Cockerell in the 1930s 952: 912: 889:Florissant Formation 862: 835:Florissant Formation 808: 800:An Eocene wasp genus 755:Florissant Formation 728: 707:Florissant Formation 597:Green River Formation 584:Archimyrmex rostratus 563:Florissant Formation 298:where he worked with 230:San Diego, California 223: 76:San Diego, California 1263:search.amphilsoc.org 1259:"APS Member History" 1238:Encyclopedia of Life 1009:. 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Index

Profile portrait of Cockerell
West Norwood
San Diego, California
Boulder, Colorado
Wilmatte Porter Cockerell
Entomology
Agricultural Experiment Station
New Mexico Normal University
University of Colorado
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis
Author abbrev. (botany)
Author abbrev. (zoology)
systematic biologist
Hymenoptera

San Diego, California
Wilmatte Porter
Felimare porterae
Boulder, Colorado
curator
Kingston, Jamaica
New Mexico
Agricultural Experiment Station
New Mexico Normal School
Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis
Colorado College
University of Colorado
Junius Henderson
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

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