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  OBITUARY. 
  

  

  Edward 
  Drinker 
  Cope, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Zoology 
  and 
  Compara- 
  

   tive 
  Anatomy 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Pennsylvania, 
  died 
  at 
  Phila- 
  

   delphia 
  on 
  the 
  12th 
  of 
  April 
  in 
  the 
  forty-sixth 
  year 
  of 
  his 
  age. 
  

   Professor 
  Cope 
  had 
  devoted 
  his 
  life 
  to 
  research 
  in 
  the 
  fields 
  of 
  

   zoology 
  and 
  paleontology, 
  chiefly, 
  of 
  vertebrates. 
  

  

  Beginning 
  his 
  career 
  as 
  a 
  medical 
  student 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  

   Pennsylvania, 
  he 
  continued 
  his 
  studies 
  in 
  comparative 
  anatomy 
  in 
  

   the 
  Philadelphia 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  in 
  Europe. 
  In 
  1866 
  he 
  became 
  a 
  professor 
  in 
  Haverlbrd 
  

   College. 
  He 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Ohio 
  in 
  1868. 
  For 
  

   many 
  years 
  after 
  this 
  he 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  explorations 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  ; 
  

   in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  Hayden 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  1872, 
  etc., 
  

   with 
  the 
  Wheeler 
  Geographical 
  Survey, 
  1874, 
  and 
  therealter 
  

   either 
  at 
  his 
  own 
  expense 
  or 
  under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  some 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  surveys. 
  He 
  collected 
  a 
  vast 
  number 
  of 
  vertebrate 
  fossils, 
  

   the 
  descriptions 
  and 
  illustrations 
  of 
  which 
  filled 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  large 
  

   volumes. 
  

  

  His 
  earliest 
  paleontological 
  studies 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  fossil 
  verte- 
  

   brates 
  of 
  the 
  Cretaceous 
  greensands 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  These 
  

   investigations 
  were 
  followed 
  by 
  others 
  on 
  the 
  Tertiary 
  vertebrates 
  

   of 
  Maryland 
  and 
  North 
  Carolina. 
  The 
  remains 
  described 
  from 
  

   these 
  fields 
  were 
  chiefly 
  reptiles 
  and 
  marine 
  mammals. 
  In 
  Ohio 
  

   his 
  discoveries 
  were 
  among 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  vertebrates. 
  In 
  

   Kansas 
  he 
  made 
  large 
  additions 
  to 
  knowledge 
  of 
  Cretaceous 
  

   fishes 
  and 
  reptiles. 
  The 
  Eocene 
  formations 
  in 
  the 
  Bad 
  Lands 
  

   about 
  Fort 
  Bridjjer 
  and 
  the 
  Green 
  River 
  basin 
  yielded 
  him 
  many 
  

   new 
  species. 
  From 
  the 
  White 
  River 
  beds 
  in 
  Colorado 
  he 
  

   obtained 
  some 
  seventy 
  or 
  more 
  new 
  mammals. 
  His 
  explorations 
  

   in 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  Nebraska, 
  Montana 
  and 
  Oregon 
  still 
  increased 
  

   the 
  species, 
  genera 
  and 
  families 
  of 
  known 
  Mesozoic 
  and 
  Tertiary 
  

   vertebrates; 
  and 
  from 
  Texas 
  were 
  taken 
  many 
  new 
  Permian 
  and 
  

   Carboniferous 
  forms. 
  

  

  Although 
  his 
  interest 
  extended 
  over 
  all 
  departments 
  of 
  verte- 
  

   brate 
  structure, 
  his 
  greatest 
  additions 
  to 
  knowledge 
  were 
  made 
  to 
  

   the 
  Reptiles, 
  Batrachia 
  and 
  Mammals. 
  He 
  did 
  not 
  confine 
  his 
  

   attention 
  alone 
  to 
  fossil 
  vertebrates. 
  He 
  prepared 
  a 
  systematic 
  

   revision 
  of 
  the 
  class 
  Batrachia 
  and 
  w 
  7 
  as 
  completing 
  a 
  similar 
  

   revision 
  of 
  the 
  class 
  Reptilia 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death. 
  

  

  For 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  Professor 
  Cope 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  chief 
  editor 
  

   of 
  the 
  "American 
  Naturalist," 
  a 
  periodical 
  devoted 
  to 
  general 
  

   Natural 
  History, 
  and 
  he 
  contributed 
  many 
  papers 
  discussing 
  the 
  

   philosophical 
  problems 
  of 
  biology. 
  He 
  is, 
  perhaps, 
  most 
  promi- 
  

   nently 
  distinguished 
  among 
  philosophical 
  biologists 
  by 
  his 
  ardent 
  

   advocacy 
  of 
  the 
  theory 
  of 
  consciousness 
  as 
  the 
  prime 
  factor 
  in 
  

   evolution. 
  

  

  His 
  published 
  works 
  small 
  and 
  large 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  exceed 
  350 
  in 
  

   number. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  many 
  scientific 
  societies 
  in 
  this 
  

   country 
  and 
  abroad 
  ; 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   Academy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  in 
  1872, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  was 
  

   President 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  

   Science. 
  

  

  