Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cooke, Dr. C. Montague  December 20, 1874 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

DR. C. MONTAGUE COOKE, PH.D, Zoologist. Making zoology his life work, Dr. C. 
Montague Cooke, Jr., Ph.D., has made valuable contributions to science in the 
field of malachology, the branch of zoology which deals with mollusks.
  The Bishop Museum, with which Dr. Cooke has been affiliated since 1902, has 
at present the largest collection of Hawaiian land shells, not only in 
numbers, but what is more important, having an almost complete series of the 
species which have already been described.
  A grandson of Amos Starr Cooke, early missionary and founder of the Cooke 
family in Hawaii, Dr. Cooke was born in Honolulu Dec. 20, 1874, the son of 
Charles Montague Cooke and Anna Charlotte (Rice) Cooke. He attended Punahou 
School, going to Yale in 1893. He received his B. A. degree in 1897 and, 
continuing his university studies, became a Ph.D. in 1901. On April 25 of that 
year he married Eliza Lefferts at Brooklyn, N.Y., and went to Europe to do 
scientific work in London and Paris. He returned to Hawaii in 1902, becoming 
curator of Pulmonata at the Bishop Museum. He is now malachologist at the 
museum.
  In following his work, Dr. Cooke has contributed papers to scientific 
journals. The most important of these were written in collaboration with Dr. 
H. A. Pilsbry, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and appeared in the 
Manual of Conchology.
  Collecting zoological specimens for the Bishop Museum, Dr. Cooke was a 
member of three scientific expeditions sent out by the institution, going to 
Palmyra Island in 1913, Nihoa and Nekker Islands, 1923, and to Baker and 
Howland Islands in 1924. Since becoming affiliated with the museum he has made 
trips to the mainland and to Europe to study types of Hawaiian land shells 
contained in museums there.
  Dr. Cooke is a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; 
London Malachological Society, Washington Biological Society and the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as park commissioner 
of Honolulu, regent of the University of Hawaii, trustee of the Honolulu 
Military Academy and Leahi Home, was formerly a member of the Fish and Game 
Commission, and holds membership in the Chiefs of Hawaii. His college 
fraternities are the Zeta Psi and Sigma Xi. 
  Dr. and Mrs. Cooke have two children, Carolene and Charles Montague Cooke, 
III.


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