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Into this well of learning dip with spoon of 



Wood or Horn. 

 For students Meek and holy silver spoons 



should treat with scorn 



If Gabb should have the gift of Gill 



(As Gill has gift of Gabb), 

 'Twould show a want of judgment still 



To try to Cope with Meek. 



Then he went abroad and spent the 

 years 1S63-64 in study in the universi- 

 ties of Europe, returning in 1864 to 

 accept the chair of natural sciences in 

 Haverford College, which he resigned 

 three years later. Meanwhile he be- 

 came paleontologist to ihe government 

 geological surveys, serving at first un- 

 der Hayden, on the survey of the Ter- 

 ritories, and then under Wheeler on 

 the survey west of the looth meridan. 

 His work in this connection has result- 

 ed in the discovery of more than one 

 thousand new species of extinct and as 

 many recent vertebra ta. There is not 

 space here to consider these in detail, 

 or, indeed, to even mention them, but 

 as has been well said the titles of his 

 papers, some four hundred in number, 

 "form a systematic record of the de- 

 velopment of paleontology in the 

 United States. " Of his larger works 

 on this branch of science, most of 

 which are contained in government re- 

 ports, the following are the more im- 

 portant: 



"Systematic Arrangement of the La- 

 certilla and Ophidia" (1864); "Pri- 

 mary Groups of the Batrachia Anura" 

 (185); "History of the Cetacea of the 

 Eastern North American Coast" 

 (1866); "Synopsis of the Ex- 

 tinct Cetacea of the United States" 

 ( 1867-68); "Sjstematic Arrangement 

 of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilla and 

 Aves of North America" (1869-70); 

 "Systematic Relations of the Fishes" 

 (1871); "Systematic Relations of the 

 Tailed Batrachia" (1872); "Extinct 



Vertebrata of the Eocene Formations 

 of Wyoming" (1873); "Cretaceous 

 Vertebrata of the West" (1877); Ter- 

 tiary Vertebrata" (1885); "Catalogue 

 of the Batrachians and Reptiles of 

 Central America and Mexico" 



(1887); "The Batrachia of North 

 America" (1889); and he has just com- 

 pleted for the press "The Snakes and 

 Lizards of North America," which will 

 be issued by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion during the coming year. 



Philadelphia has for many years 

 been the home of Prof. Cope and, on 

 the death of Prof. Leidy, in 1889, 

 Prof. Cope was called to the vacant 

 chair of geology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, which post he still fills. 

 Besides the duties of his chair he has 

 long been the senior editor of the 

 American Naturalist. 



Prof. Cope is also well known as the 

 graceful writer of numerous popular 

 contributions in book form to the lit- 

 erature in favor of the now generally 

 accepted doctrine of evolution. These 

 include: 



"On the Origin of Genera" (1868); 

 "Hypothesis of Evolution, Physical 

 and Metaphysical" (1870); "Method 

 of Creation of Organic Types" (1871); 

 "Evolution and its Consequences" 

 (1872); "Consequences in Evolution" 

 (1875); "Relation of Man to Tertiary 

 Mammalia" (1875); "On the Theory 

 of Evolution" (1876); "The Origin of 

 Will" (1877); "The Relation of Ani- 

 mal Motion to Animal Evolution' 

 (1878); "A Review of the Modern Doc- 

 trine of Evolution" (1879); "Origin of 

 Man and Other Vertebrates" (1885); 

 "The Energy of Life Evolution and 

 how it has Acted" (1885); "The Ori- 

 gin of the Fittest" (1886); and "The 



