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Title: Information Sheet, Dr. Ed Cohen






Dr. Ed Cohen is a retired mathematician who worked for the U.S. Navy. At an early age, he became interested in butterflies and moths at Kamp Kewanee in La Plume, PA, a small town near Scranton. Later, while he was a camper at Camp Greenville near Greenville, SC, he was influenced by none other than Dr. Dan Janzen, who happened to be a counselor at the same camp at that time. His early interest was expanded when he taught nature at a camp in Cheraw, SC, where he, in fact, served as a counselor. It was there that he first became interested in other aspects of nature, including, in particular, the study of beetles and spiders, together with a complementary interest in vascular plants. His interest in plants continued and was considerably enhanced through the influence of Dr. Harry Muegel, a botany professor at the University of Cincinnati, while he was a graduate student there in the 1960s. Furthermore, he gained much knowledge about beetles from Dr. Charles Triplehorn (Ohio State University) at that time. Since Graduate School he has extended his knowledge base to include many other areas of entomology and botany while maintaining a secondary interest in arachnology as well. In fact he now has a well-documented, carefully curated collection of insect and arachnid specimens from the U.S. and Canada as well as the New World tropics including Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. Roughly 20% of this collection is from the Mid-Atlantic Area of the U.S. His wife Joy encourages his work on insects and plants and accompanies him on field trips and to meetings of entomological, botanical, and other societies.

I thank Ed for his help with this vignette and things entomological.

E. M. B.

(9 September 2003)






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