later generations of naturalists seems to me to be that one may be useful 

 to his fellow-men and enjoy the keen pleasure of discovery and come 

 to honor and distinction, without visiting strange countries in search 

 of rarities, without biological stations and marine laboratories, without 

 the latest technical methods, without grants of money, and, above all, 

 without undertaking to solve the riddles of the universe or resolving 

 biology into physics and chemistry. 



If one have the simple responsive mind of a child or of Leidy, he 

 may, like Leidy, "find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

 sermons in stones and good in everything." 



EDWARD DRINKER COPE. 

 By Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



In the marble portrait of Edward Drinker Cope, you see the man of 

 large brain, of keen eye and of strong resolve, the ideal combination 

 for a life of science, the man who scorns obstacles, who while battling 

 with the present looks above and beyond. The portrait stands in its 

 niche as a tribute to a great leader and founder of American palaeontol- 

 ogy, as an inspiration to young Americans. In unison with the other 

 portraits its forcible words are: "Go thou and do likewise." 



Cope, a Philadelphian, born July 28, 1840, passed away at the early 

 age of fifty-seven. Favored by heredity, through distinguished ancestry 

 of Pennsylvania Quakers, who bequeathed intellectual keenness and a 

 constructive spirit. As a boy of eight entering a life of travel and 

 observation, and with rare precocity giving promise of the finest qualities 

 of his manhood. Of incessant activity of mind and body, tireless 

 as an explorer, early discovering for himself that the greatest pleasure 

 and stimulus of life is to penetrate the unknown in Nature. In personal 

 character fearless, independent, venturesome, militant, far less of a 

 Quaker in disposition than his Teutonic fellow citizen Leidy. Of 

 enormous productiveness, as an editor conducting the American Natural- 

 ist for nineteen years, as a writer leaving a shelf-full of twenty octavo 

 and three great quarto volumes of original research. A man of fortitude, 

 bearing material reverses with good cheer, because he lived in the 



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