Orator F. Cook

Cook graduated in 1890 from Syracuse University and then worked there as a lecturer. From 1891 he worked for the New York State Colonization Society in Liberia and was 1896-1898 President of Liberia College in Monrovia. He then moved to a job as a scientist at the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States and specialized in cotton and rubber -plant species as well as to the classification of palm plants. He established through his work several taxonomic families within the arthropods ( Arthropoda ) and was the first to describe several species of palm trees. Throughout 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. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 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