Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists:
Chrono-Biographical Sketches
Cooke, May Thacher (United States 1885-1963)
economic zoology, ornithology
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May Thacher Cooke was never a major player at the U. S. Biological Survey (or the Fish and Wildlife Service, its successor agency); still, she was a capable investigator who while mostly working behind the scenes published a fair amount on ornithological subjects in her own right. Most of her attention was given to the monitoring of bird distribution patterns, especially with an eye to economic implications. Cooke's career is perhaps most interesting when viewed in light of her position as a woman working in a field and institution at that point completely dominated by men. |
Life Chronology
--born in 1885.
--1915: joins the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU)
--1916: joins the staff of the United States Biological Survey
--1920: administrator, bird banding program, USBS
--1926: made elective member of the AOU
--1928: publishes her The
Spread of the European Starling in North America (to 1928)
--1929: publishes "Birds of the Washington, D.C. Region" in the Proceedings
of the Biological Society of Washington
--1947: retires from the Fish and Wildlife Service
--1957: compiles distributional data for the AOU's Check-list of North
American Birds
--dies at Washington, D.C., on 13 June 1963.
For Additional Information, See:
--The
Auk, Vol. 82(4) (1965): 685.
--May Thacher Cooke: Biography of a Woman Employee in the Bureau of
Biological Survey [website].
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