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the case in Cope's speeches, before the people had 

 had time to come back from the misty past, he 

 turned to where I was sitting on a step, and beck- 

 oned me to him. When I got within reach, he 

 turned me around to the audience and said : " Ladies 

 and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you Mr. 

 Sternberg, the man who found this beautiful ex- 

 ample of the fauna of the Cretaceous." 



He was much pleased with the hearty applause 

 that greeted me. 



This incident illustrates one of the characteristics 

 of Cope which endeared him to all his collectors. 

 He did not think that the money he paid them paid 

 for the dangers and privations they endured, far 

 from their friends and the comforts of civilization. 

 On the contrary, he gave them credit in all his pub- 

 lications for their discoveries of species new to 

 science. And this is the one essential thing to the 

 collector at least the true collector who values his 

 labor as something that cannot be measured by 

 money. All work done for science has a value above 

 that of money. Lesquereux might have made 

 money if he had remained a watchmaker, and Cope 

 would have won a fortune as a ship-owner if he had 

 entered his father's office, but both men realized that 

 there is work which offers higher rewards than 

 riches; they gave their lives to science, and they 

 will never be forgotten. 



