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The flora of the Presidency of Bombay
Volumes 1-2
Published by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, England.
1903-1908
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Theodore Cooke (1836 in 1836) Cooke was born in County Waterford in 1836. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took what would today be called a double major, in the faculties of arts and engineering. He then joined the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, for which he led the building of an iron bridge at Bassein (Vasai). Just a few years into his career as a railway engineer, he was snapped up by the Bombay government’s educational service, becoming the principal at the Poona college when he was not yet thirty.
His scientific specialisation was in geology and his vocation, that of civil engineering, but in his spare time he would examine the plants of the Bombay Presidency, eventually heading the work of the Botanical Survey of India for western India in 1891.
After retirement, he set to work producing what would become the seven-volume Flora of the Presidency of Bombay from his base at Kew, the London suburb that was home to the Royal Botanical Gardens. Among Cooke’s pedagogical ...
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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: T.Cooke
33 plant species named BY Cooke and 22 plant species named AFTER Cooke.
The flora of the Presidency of Bombay