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Mais Algumas Coccidae Colligidas Pelo Dr. F. Noack: Da Revista Do Museu Paulista-Anno III, 1898 (Classic Reprint)
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Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was an American naturalist.
Background
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was born on August 22, 1866 in Norwood, a suburb of London, England. He was the eldest of the four sons and two daughters of Sydney John and Alice Elizabeth (Bennett) Cockerell. His father was a partner in the firm of George Cockerell and Company, coal merchants. The Cockerells were originally a Suffolk family of brewers, probably of Flemish origin (Cocquerel), and included several members of unusual ability. Theodore's brother Sydney Carlyle became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge; and a nephew, Christopher Cockerell, invented the Hovercraft.
Education
Cockerell attended private schools in Beckenham, where his parents had moved in 1872. Encouraged by his father, he showed an early interest in the natural history displays at local museums and began collecting snails, caterpillars, and butterflies. After his father's death in 1877 the family was left in poor circumstances and moved to Margate. There on the shore, and two years later during a visit to Madeira with a family friend, the boy developed a strong enthusiasm for shells and insects. During his teens he briefly attended the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, joined the Socialist League, where he formed a friendship with William Morris, and earned his living by working for a firm of flour factors; but natural history remained a major interest. He received honorary degrees from Colorado College (1913) and the University of Denver (1942).
Career
Before he was twenty-one he had published more than 160 brief notes, chiefly on shells. Cockerell had never been too healthy, and, discovering that he had tuberculosis, he sailed in June 1887 for the United States and went directly to Colorado, where he joined a colony of English immigrants at Westcliffe, near the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In this climate his health improved, and during the next three years the rich flora and fauna of the region apparently fixed his interest in biology. He founded and became secretary of the Colorado Biological Association, maintained an extensive correspondence with scientists, including Alfred Russel Wallace, and began to assemble records leading to a comprehensive catalogue of the entire biota of the Rocky Mountain region. After his return to England in 1890 he worked for a year at the British Museum (Natural History) and assisted Wallace in preparing the second edition of his Island Life, an experience that stimulated Cockerell's lifelong interest in the mechanisms of evolution. In 1893 Cockerell, again in poor health, moved to Las Cruces as professor of entomology and zoology at the New Mexico Agricultural College (he became a naturalized citizen in 1898). Although Cockerell had no earned university degree, he spent the rest of his professional life on the faculties of educational institutions in the Rocky Mountain region. He carried out research at the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station at Las Cruces (1893 - 1901), taught biology at the New Mexico Normal College at Las Vegas (1900 - 1903), served a year as curator of the museum of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and in 1904 moved to the University of Colorado. There he remained until retirement, as lecturer in entomology (1904 - 1906), professor of systematic zoology (1906 - 1912), and professor of zoology (1912 - 1934). A naturalist in the broad tradition of the nineteenth century, Cockerell was best known for his work in entomology. He was a recognized authority on the taxonomy of bees in all parts of the world; he published more than five thousand new names for species, subspecies, and varieties, and 146 names for genera and subgenera. In botany, perhaps his most important contribution was "The North American Species of Hymenoxys". He also published Zoology (1920), a textbook, and Zoology of Colorado (1927). Cockerell's interests were far-reaching, however, and the scope of his intellectual curiosity is reflected in the nearly 4, 000 papers and notes he published, many no more than a few lines in length. His studies in systematic biology spanned a broad spectrum of organisms, including Mollusca, Lepidoptera, scale insects, fossil insects, gall wasps, the flowering plants, and Fungi, and he pioneered in the classification of fossil fish by their isolated scales. Aided by his wife, Cockerell discovered and worked out the genetics of a wine-red sunflower, Helianthus annuus, whose seeds were later put on the market. He made many collecting trips, including travels to Siberia and Japan (1923), South America (1925), Russia (1927), Australia (1928), and Africa (1931). Cockerell's phenomenal output of papers brought strong criticism from his colleagues, who accused him of publishing hasty notes on trivial matters rather than waiting to accumulate enough material in a given area to produce a comprehensive paper. Cockerell explained his haste in publishing by stating his fears for his uncertain health; but a stronger factor was probably his eagerness to communicate his observations and ideas to interested colleagues without delay. Then too, from his experience in preparing lists and catalogues, he believed that much of the material reported in his short notes, each dealing with a single item, would have been lost by being submerged in longer publications bearing generalized titles. By 1934, when Cockerell retired, the era of the well-rounded naturalist had largely given way to the new age of specialization. During his last years he was regarded on his campus as an eccentric, of little importance to the modern curriculum in biology. After his retirement he spent his winters in California, working in the Santa Barbara islands off the southern coast, and for a time (1941 - 1945) served as curator of the Desert Museum at Palm Springs, California. He died in San Diego of arteriosclerotic heart disease. Following cremation, his ashes were buried at Green Mountain Cemetery in Boulder.
Achievements
He served as president of the Entomological Society of America (1924), and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1928.
On June 2, 1891, Cockerell married Annie S. Fenn and immediately sailed for Kingston, Jamaica, to become curator of the public museum there. Their first son, Austin, was born in Kingston but lived only a few days. His wife died in September 1893, a few days after the birth of their second son, Martin, who died at the age of eight. On June 19, 1900, Cockerell married Wilmatte Porter, a graduate of Stanford and a biology teacher at the New Mexico Normal College. They had no children, and his wife actively assisted him in his research.
Father:
Sydney John
His father was a partner in the firm of George Cockerell and Company, coal merchants
Mother:
Alice Elizabeth (Bennett) Cockerell
Spouse:
Wilmatte Porter
She was a graduate of Stanford and a biology teacher at the New Mexico Normal College
Spouse:
Annie S. Fenn
Brother:
Sydney Carlyle
He became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
