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Plate 39 from the cited work: “A . applanata parryi — 1. Outer side of leaf of medium sized plant, X; 2. end-spine and margin from face of leaf; 3. flower, showing insertion of stamens, X 1; 4. portion of fruiting branch, X 3; 5. capsule, X1. Leaf from plant sent to Garden from Pinos Altos Mts.; flowers and fruit from Copper Flats, New Mexico. All collected by author, Anna Isabel Mulford.”
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
Cockerell was Entomologist of the Experiment Station and Professor of Entomology and Zoology at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now NMSU) from 1893-1900. His assessment of the school is informative.
“Although the College was small, and did not reach the standards of a modern university, it was on the whole a stimulating place, and I think the students were well served. Owing to the combination of college and experiment station work, it was possible to have more specialists in the sciences than would have been found in other institutions of like size.” (pp. 379-380)
He published “The Bees of New Mexico” in The Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Vo.. 32, Number 3) August 1906. He noted that: “More species of bees are known from
Collected in the Florida Mountains, east of Deming. Bouteloua barbata var. barbata. Shown with a collection date of August 1995 in data bases (should be 1895). Anna Isabel Mulford
New Mexico than from any other State or Territory.” (p. 389) He had published earlier works on the general topic.
He was especially well known for his work with fossilized insects, particularly those of the Florissant Fossil beds in Colorado. Demonstrating his extensive work in natural history, he has an author abbreviation in botany (Cockerell) and one in zoology (Ckll.). He published an autobiographical article in Bios, Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 1935), pp. 372-385.
Wooton and Standley’s “Descriptions of New Plants Preliminary to a Report Upon the Flora of New Mexico” (1913) references Cockerll’s collection at the Agricultural College.
His collections are noted in a variety of works; for instance, it is noted that he collected the mosquito, Culex impiger, at Mesilla, New Mexico in, Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States, 1900, L. O. Howard, USDA, Div. of Entomology.
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