. 
distributed them : — 
SOME OF PROFESSOR MARSH’S CRITICISMS. 295 
this, he is willing to write (Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1878, p. 118), 
“the dates on the papers (Aug. 20th and 22d) certainly do not 
represent those of actual publication ;” and again (American Nat- 
uralist, 1873, p. 151) “no less than seven of Prof. Cope’s papers 
are antedated, as the records of the society will show.” Prof. 
Marsh is not careful to prevent the natural deduction from these 
statements, that the dates are fraudulent; though he well knows 
to the contrary, and disagreeable though it may be to the mens 
conscia recti, I am compelled to prove that such is not the case! 
I therefore append testimonials from the proprietors and fore- 
men of the printing establishment from which the essays in 
question were issued, and from my mown a who received and 
PHILADELPHIA, March 24th, 1878. 
Professor O. C. Marsh prc stated in the “American Naturalist” (1873, p. 151) that some 
of the Santee published by Professor Cope during the summer of 1872, and printed by us, bear 
dates * — do not repréecat ‘lose a enter aoa and that “ "at least seven o of them are an- 
tedated,” 
ere 
hundred copies of ‘these papers were delivered by us into the hands of Pendleton King and 
Stephen G. Worth, assistants of Professor Cope, except that on Metalophodon, which was is- 
sued to Professor Lesley, 
McCALLA & STAVELY. 
JNO. S. SCHEIDELL, For of ee Room. 
JOHN DARDES, Pircian a bas Roo 
= LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, 
Baton Rouge, March 24, 1873. 
PROFESSOR E. D. COPE, Academy Natural fe &Philad, 
:—On looking over my papers, I ‘and that I have, among papers written by 
EAR FRIEND 
you, the mae 
Oh anew genus of Bleurodirg from the Eocene of Wyoming, July 11, 1872. 
i Is arbi sof Osino, N levada, J = 29th. 
Descriptions of Som: x p of the Eocene, July 29th. 
nd oe s Same, August 3d. 
Tth. 
the Existence of oi i the Transition Beds of Wyom 
Short on of Species of Loxolophodon (misprinted eka Cope, near August 17th. 
New Verte rate from the Upper Waters of Bitter Creek, Wyoming Territory 
Second Notice of Extinct Vertebrates from Bitter Creek, Wyoming, August 22, 1872. 
These I brought with me from ear elphia, serge er arly in belaia 1872. 
I laid them aside during Jùly and Augusf, and am confident that the dates which I find on 
— as ABOVE, cor rrespon nd wit h the times lI Teceived t them f tom ne pres 
tions were for using the list of names 
of persons to whom they were to be sent. Some recei ived them very soon, 0 others after a short 
delay, as suited convenience in mailing; and I think all were mailed by the Ist of —_ i 
ou are at wai to use this letter if desirable. Very tru 
KING, 
Professor of Natural History in the University of Louisiana. 
I now add testimonials from some of the persons to whom the 
papers in question were sent, although I consider this part of 
the evidence as quite immaterial, that which has gone before being 
