Theodore Cockerell

Education

He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and then studied botany in the field in Colorado in 1887-1890.

Career

Subsequently he became a taxonomist and published numerous papers on the Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Mollusca, as well as publications on paleontology and evolution. Between 1891 and 1901 Cockerell was curator of the public museum of Kingston, Jamaica, professor of entomology of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1900-1903 he was instructor in biology at the New Mexico Normal University.

While there he taught and mentored the botanist Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis.

In 1903-1904 Cockerell was the curator of the Colorado College Museum. And in 1904 he became lecturer on entomology and in 1906 professor of systematic zoology, at the University of Colorado, where he worked with Junius Henderson in establishing the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

During World World War II he operated the Desert Museum in Palm Springs, California. named by Cockerell include:.

Achievements

• A dorm in the Engineering Quad at the University of Colorado at Boulder is named in his honor.