Orator Fuller Cook

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Orator Fuller Cook

Orator Fuller Cook (born May 28, 1867 in Clyde, New York , † April 23, 1949 in Lanham, Maryland ) was an American botanist , entomologist and cultural geographer .

Cook graduated from Syracuse University in 1890 and then worked there as a lecturer. From 1891 he worked for the colonization society of the state of New York in Liberia and was from 1896 to 1898 president of the Liberia College in Monrovia . He then moved to a position as a scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture, specializing in the cotton and rubber-releasing plant species and the classification of palm trees . He established through his work several taxonomic families within the arthropods ( Arthropoda ) and was first to describe several species of palms. Over the course of his career, he has published nearly 400 books and articles. In 1930 he received an honorary doctorate from Syracuse University.

Cook's official botanical author abbreviation is " OFCook ".

Works (selection)

  • Vegetation affected by agriculture in Central America. US Department of Agriculture, Washington DC 1909
  • History of the Coconut Palm in America. In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 14 (2) / 1910. Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, pp. 271-342
  • Milpa Agriculture, A Primitive Tropical System. In: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1919. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1921, pp. 307-326

literature

  • Daniel W. Gade: The Contributions of OF Cook to Cultural Geography. In: The Professional Geographer. 22 (4) / 1970. Association of American Geographers, pp. 206-209, ISSN  0033-0124

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, orator Fuller
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, OF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist, entomologist and cultural geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Clyde (New York)
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1949
Place of death Lanham, Maryland