Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) and Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1935
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-1019
In this 1935 photograph, botanist Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) is shown with biologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948), whom she married in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramarine blue chromodorid Mexichromis porterae in her honor. Before and after their marriage in 1900, they frequently went on collecting expeditions together and assembled a large private library of natural history films, which they showed to schoolchildren and public audiences to promote the cause of environmental conservation.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-1019
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1935
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1019]