THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
Vol. XXVI. AUGUST, 1900. No. 2 
THE LIFE 
AND LETTERS OF 
EDWARD DRINKER COPE. 
By Pebsifoe Frazer, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Plates VI-XV. 
Prefatory Note. 
The following memoir was based upon letters and other 
writings of Edward Cope in the belief that in no other way 
than through his own pen could so just an idea of his char- 
acter be given. The main sources of these writings were 
the letters to his immediate relatives, kindly loaned by his 
wife, his sister, and his cousin (thelatter's husband), together 
with a comparatively small number preserved by the pres- 
ent writer, who takes this occasion to thank these relatives 
publicly, as he already has privately, for the assistance thus 
afforded. The original memoir, as originally prepared, con- 
tained a chronological table of all of Prof. Cope's publica- 
tions, and was five times the length of the acj:ompanying 
sketch, even without counting a cross reference alphabetical 
index which would have added half as many more pages. 
For various reasons, these parts have been taken out. The 
cross-reference index is being published by the Mexican 
Society "Antonio Alzate"; and the letters themselves have 
been curtailed (though with reluctance) to a fraction of their 
original space. 
