SCIENCE 
EpIToRIAL CommittEr: §. Newcoms, Mathematics; R. S. WooDWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. LE ContE, Geology; W. M. DAvis, Physiography; O. C. MARSH, Paleontology; W. K. 
Brooks, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; 8. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; HENRY F. OsBorn, General Biology; H. P. Bowbitcu, Physiology; 
J. S. Bintines, Hygiene ; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology ; 
DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, Aveust 13, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
Edward Drinker Cope, Naturalisi—A Chapter in the 
History of Science: THEO. GILL.............0.0.00- 225 
Expert Testimony: WILLIAM P. MASON............ 243 
Current Notes on Anthropology :— . 
Araucanian Studies; The Fourteenth Report of the 
Bureau of Ethnology: D. G. BRINTON.............248 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H.............+. 249 
Notes on Engineering: R. H. To........sesecseeseeeeees 250 
Scientific Notes and News..........s.s.s0sescesenee sooe aL 
University and Educational News. .........s.sss0eeeseeeee 256 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
Cerebral Light: JOSEPH LE CONTE. ............... 257 
Scientific Literature :— 
Kohirausch on Leitfaden der Praktischen Physik ; 
Parker's Treatise on Electrical Measurements : 
WILLIAM HaALLock. Minot on Bibliography : 
AKSEL G. S. JOSEPHSON. Butler on Indiana: 
Wye WG IDAN IES accada decbcobondacqsbaceoosseons6ongaGnaDedon 258 
...260 
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for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
EDWARD DRINKER COPE, NATURALIST—A 
CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE.* 
I 
Bitter con:traint, and sad occasion dear 
Compels me to disturb your season due; 
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his time 
Our Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 
On the morning of the 13th of April, ina 
car on my way from a funeral in New 
* Address by the retiring President of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Science at the 
Detroit Meeting, August 9th. 
York to Washington, a newspaper notice of 
the death, the day before, of my old friend, 
H. D. Cope, caught my eye. Shocked by 
the intelligence, I dropped the paper, and 
memory recalled various incidents of our 
long acquaintance. 
The threnody of Milton* in commemora- 
tion of his friend Edward King also rose to 
recollection, and the lines just quoted 
seemed to me to be peculiarly fitted for the 
great man just dead. He was, indeed, no 
longer young and had attained his prime,} 
but he had planned work for many years to 
come and had well advanced in the execu- 
tion of some of it. He had truly died be- 
fore his time and had left no peer; the 
greatest of the long line of American natu- 
ralists was prematurely snatched from sci- 
ence and from friends. 
My acquaintance with Cope began in 
1859. While looking through the part of 
the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia for the month of 
April, in which my first paper published by 
the Academy had appeared, I found one by 
E. D. Cope ‘ On the primary divisions of the 
Salamandride.’ It seems that the papers 
by Cope and myself had been passed on by 
the Committee on Publications on the very 
same day (April 26th) and appeared in 
print in juxtaposition. I had not previously 
* Milton, Poems XVII. 
} In the extract from Milton’s poem, time has been 
substituted for prime and our for young. 
