As the field researchers gathered many species of ticks and ticks in many stages of their life cycle, Dr. Robert Cooley developed a huge collection of them. Cooley was the head entomologist at Canyon Creek Schoolhouse laboratory. This collection would help later researchers solve questions about other tick-borne diseases.
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Dr. Robert In this photo, Cooley shows off his world-class tick collection kept in jars in a huge card file cabinet. The second picture photo was taken in Building One (which opened in 1928), not the Canyon Creek Schoolhouse laboratory, on December 3, 1946. Cooley had been developing this collection since his first days studying RMSF forty years before.
