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though he enjoyed good health and was a very hard 

 worker. In his dress I found him a little careless. He 

 was smooth shaven while here and wore glasses when 

 reading. 



Completely absorbed in his own thoughts he was a 

 poor conversationalist. Indeed, he was rather impatient 

 with callers, or at least that was what several of us 

 thought who honored him by dropping in to see him. 

 Perhaps if our acquaintance had been longer I could not 

 have said that. 



Prof. [E. D.] Cope, of the University of Pennsylvania 

 also stopped off in Sioux City on two of his Missouri 

 River trii)s. With him I became quite well acquainted. 

 Some time before his first visit a boat pilot had found, 

 way up the Missouri River, some of the bones of a plesio- 

 saurian. He brought them down to Sioux City and I 

 gave him |25 for them. When Prof. Cope was here I 

 gave the bones to him. Later he printed a description 

 of the bones in a paper published by the University and 

 in it he gave me a complimentary notice. ^ 



Prof. Cope was intense, very much wrapped up in 

 his subject [zoology]. He could hardly talk anything 

 else. During his second visit here a trip up the Big Sioux 

 was arranged by D. W. Jenkins, Perrin Johnson, Geo. 



1. Tile paper in question was entitled, "On the Structure of the 

 Skull in the Plesiosaurian Reptilia, and on Two New Species from the 

 Upper Cretaceous," by E. D. Cope. It was read before the American 

 Philosophical Society on Febraury 2, 1894, printed in the Proceedings 

 of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 33, and reprinted in. pam- 

 phlet form on March 6, 1894. The paper is a description of two 

 specimens. One of these, termed "Embaphias circulosus," is declared 

 to be both a new genus and a new species. After the description and 

 measurements occurs this paragraph: "This is a species of large 

 size, though not equal in dimensions to the known species of Elas- 

 mosaurus. It was found in the upper cretaceous bed of the Pierre 

 epoch, at the big bend of the Missouri river in South Dakota. It was 

 presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences by Mr. John H. Charles, 

 of Sioux City, together with the remains of Elasmosaurus below men- 

 tioned. I wish to express my sense of the obligation under which 

 Mr. Charles has placed the academy and myself by his liberality in 

 this and other matters." 



The second specimen, termed "Elasmosaurus intermedius," is de- 

 clared to be a new species. Following the description and measure- 

 ments occur the words: "This specimen was found with that of 

 the Embaphias circulosus at the Big Bend of the Missouri in South 

 Dakota, and was presented to the museum of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences by Mr. John H. Charles, of Sioux City, Iowa." 



