William Pennington Cocks (1791–1878) was an English surgeon naturalist principally interested in marine fauna. He was born in Devon. Owing to ill-health, when he was still only 51, he retired to Falmouth in Cornwall.[1][2] He described the nudibranch Aeolidiella alderi and the sea anemone Anthopleura ballii.
Publications
editpartial list
- List of Echinodermata procured in Falmouth and neighbourhood from 1843 to 1849 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist. Ant. Soc. 1 :292.
- Common objects of the sea-shore Falmouth.
- Nudibranchiate Mollusca Quarto pp. 8. Falmouth.
- Chitons Quarto pp. 12. Falmouth.Salt Water Mollusca Quarto pp. 16. Falmouth.
- Hints for facilitating the Records of Natural History Quarto. Falmouth.
Thirty papers, many undated, are listed in Boase and Courtenay (1874) [3]
References
edit- ^ Davey, F. H., 1909 William Pennington Cocks. Rep. R. Cornwall polyt. Soc., 76 N.S. (part 1): 82-91
- ^ Turk, S. M.,1971 William Pennington Cocks (1791-1878), a West County naturalist. The Journal of Conchology, 27: 253-255.
- ^ Boase, G. Clement., Courtney, W. Prideaux , 1874 Bibliotheca cornubiensis: A catalogue of the writings, both manuscript and printed, of Cornishmen, and of works relating to the county of Cornwall, with biographical memoranda and copious literary references. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer.
External links
edit
 | This article about a biologist from England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
   | This article about a British zoologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |