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Darwin Correspondence Project

Josiah Parsons Cooke

1827–94

American chemist, teacher, and author. Appointed tutor of mathematics, Harvard University, 1849; elected Erving professor of chemistry and mineralogy, 1850.

Source

DAB.

Bibliography

DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.

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