1879] At the Smithsonian Institution 



was Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, who had come from 

 Pennsylvania as Goode's colleague in research. 

 Papers by Goode and Bean ran in lines parallel with 

 those of Jordan and Gilbert. 



A leading scientist whose acquaintance also I Edward 

 made in Washington at this period was Professor & inker 

 Edward D. Cope of Philadelphia, a man of keen 

 insight and great versatility, noted alike as a student 

 of fishes and an untiring collector of fossils. But 

 along with his incisive and flashlight mind he was 

 frequently hasty as to details, and his general 

 conduct was governed by caprice rather than by 

 sustained purpose. Toward me he was always 

 considerate and helpful. When Gilbert and I 

 began our joint work in the Christmas holidays of 

 1877-78, he invited us to his home and offered every 

 facility in the way of books and advice, except that 

 he naturally did not show the great collection of 

 fish skeletons he had lately purchased from Josef 

 Hyrtl, the noted anatomist of Vienna, of which he 

 subsequently made excellent use. For on it he 

 founded his classification of the orders of fishes, an 

 arrangement which for the most part stands, es- 

 pecially as supplemented and interpreted by Gill. 



Resuming work at the Smithsonian the following 

 Christmas, I was assigned a bedroom high up in 

 the main tower, occupied off and on by me during 

 two or three succeeding years. I had then been Fishes 

 employed by Dr. John S. Newberry, professor in 

 Columbia and state geologist of Ohio, to prepare 

 an elaborate volume on the fishes of Ohio, expand- 

 ing and supplementing the Klippart report of 1877. 

 As artist I took with me one of my students, Ernest 



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