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one on the serpentines of Canada in the Transactions of the 

 Ottawa Naturalist ; but he had laid well the foundations for an 

 active and useful life, which would doubtless have been produc- 

 tive of valuable results to the scientific world, and his death is 

 therefore regarded as a very serious loss to the field staff of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada." 



the late prof. E. D. cope, of PHILADELPHIA. 



Edward Drinker Cope, Ph. D., &c., &c., the widely known 

 naturalist and palaeontologist, professor of comparative anatomy 

 at the University of Pennsylvania, died at his home, 2102 Pine 

 street, Philadelphia, on the 12th of April, 1897. For the last 

 two weeks of his life Prof. Cope was confined to his bed, 

 gradually, but surely succumbing to that fell malady, Bright's 

 disease, of which he had been a victim for some years. 



He was born in Philadelphia, July 28th, 1840, was educated 

 at Westtown Academy and at the University of Pennsylvania. 

 In 1869, in America, and in 1863 and in 1864 in Europe, he 

 made a special study of comparative anatomy. In 1864 he be- 

 came professor of natural science in Haverford College, resigning 

 three years later, owing to failing health. From this on he was 

 associated with the scientific work in connection with the geo- 

 graphical and geological surveys and researches of the territories, 

 &c. He described nearly lOOO new species of extinct, and he is 

 reputed to have described as many recent vertebrata. For many 

 years Prof. Cope was curator and secretary of the Academy of 

 Science, Philadelphia, and occupied several scientific and re- 

 sponsible positions for the State. In 1879 he received the Bigsby 

 medal, in 1884 he was elected vice-president of the A.A.A.S. 

 In 1889 he became professor of geology and palaeontology in 

 the School of Biology in the university, succeeding Prof. Howells, 

 a position which he held up to the time of his death. 



Prof.Cope has contributed about 100 papers to the Amer. Phil. 

 Society, to the Academy of Sciences, to the National Museum, 



