Scientist: Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was a distinguished zoologist and professor of biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was noted for his work on North American bees, but also studied and wrote extensively on other aspects of entomology. Appointed to deliver the 1938 Lecture on Research and Creative Work at the University of Colorado. A residence hall on the Boulder campus is named in his honor. Graduate of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Prior to coming to the University of Colorado, Cockerell served as curator of the Public Museum in Kingston, Jamica, and later assumed the duties of entomologist of the New Mexico College of Agriculture at Las Cruces Experiment Station, as well as Professor of Entomology and Zoology. Moved to the American West because of suffering from tuberculosis. Publications about Theodore Cockerell: Theodore Cockerell: A Naturalist's Life (University Press of Colorado, 2000); Letters from West Cliff (Colorado Associated University Press, 1976); and, The Valley of the Second Sons: and, Letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, a Young English Naturalist (Pilgrims Process, Longmont, Colorado, 2004) . Among Professor Cockerell's publications are: African Bees of the Genera Ceratina, Halictus and Megachile (1937); Bees of the Family Hylaeidae From the Ethiopian Region (1942); Report of the Entomologist (1904); Biologia Centrali-Americana: Inssecta, Rhynchota.Hemiptera-Homoptera (1909); A Check-List of the Cocidae (1896); A Cluster of Bees: Sixty Essays on the Life-Histories of Australian Bees, With Specific Description (1935); A Contribution to the Knowledge of Some South American Hymenoptera, Chiefly From Paraguay (1907); Directions for Collecting and Preserving Scale Insects [Coccidae] (1909); Insects of 1893: The Army Worm, the San Jose Scale, the Cochineal Insect, the Cottony Sacie, ...(1893); The Mosquitoes of Colorado (1918); New American Bees (1905); Notes on the Food of Birds (1901); Observations on Insects (1900); Papers on Bees (1930?); Papers on Foreign Bees (1940?) Preliminary Notes on the Codling Moth (1898); Report of the Entomologist, Part 1 (New Mexico College of Agricultue and the Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station (1896); Scales of African Characinid Fishes (1910); Scales of Mormyrid Fishes, with Remarks on Albula and Elops (1910); Some Fossil Insects From Florissant, Colorado (1913); Zoology of Colorado (1927); and, Zoology: A Textbook for Colleges and Universities (1927).
Scientist: Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was a distinguished zoologist and professor of biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was noted for his work on North American bees, but also studied and wrote extensively on other aspects of entomology. Appointed to deliver the 1938 Lecture on Research and Creative Work at the University of Colorado. A residence hall on the Boulder campus is named in his honor. Graduate of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Prior to coming to the University of Colorado, Cockerell served as curator of the Public Museum in Kingston, Jamica, and later assumed the duties of entomologist of the New Mexico College of Agriculture at Las Cruces Experiment Station, as well as Professor of Entomology and Zoology. Moved to the American West because of suffering from tuberculosis. Publications about Theodore Cockerell: Theodore Cockerell: A Naturalist's Life (University Press of Colorado, 2000); Letters from West Cliff (Colorado Associated University Press, 1976); and, The Valley of the Second Sons: and, Letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, a Young English Naturalist (Pilgrims Process, Longmont, Colorado, 2004) . Among Professor Cockerell's publications are: African Bees of the Genera Ceratina, Halictus and Megachile (1937); Bees of the Family Hylaeidae From the Ethiopian Region (1942); Report of the Entomologist (1904); Biologia Centrali-Americana: Inssecta, Rhynchota.Hemiptera-Homoptera (1909); A Check-List of the Cocidae (1896); A Cluster of Bees: Sixty Essays on the Life-Histories of Australian Bees, With Specific Description (1935); A Contribution to the Knowledge of Some South American Hymenoptera, Chiefly From Paraguay (1907); Directions for Collecting and Preserving Scale Insects [Coccidae] (1909); Insects of 1893: The Army Worm, the San Jose Scale, the Cochineal Insect, the Cottony Sacie, ...(1893); The Mosquitoes of Colorado (1918); New American Bees (1905); Notes on the Food of Birds (1901); Observations on Insects (1900); Papers on Bees (1930?); Papers on Foreign Bees (1940?) Preliminary Notes on the Codling Moth (1898); Report of the Entomologist, Part 1 (New Mexico College of Agricultue and the Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station (1896); Scales of African Characinid Fishes (1910); Scales of Mormyrid Fishes, with Remarks on Albula and Elops (1910); Some Fossil Insects From Florissant, Colorado (1913); Zoology of Colorado (1927); and, Zoology: A Textbook for Colleges and Universities (1927).
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THEODORE DRU ALISON COCKERELL
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