Edward Drinker Cope. — Frazer. 6g 
Toward science his devotion was unbounded, and his at- 
titude towards the organizations for its prosecution was that 
of exalted patriotism. The cry "Greece for the Greeks!"; 
"France for the French!"; "America for the Americans!"; 
was with him "Scientific Societies for Scientific men." He 
loathed the servility which permitted, often by unworthy 
means, the election to membership, and even to the high of- 
fices in such organizations, of those whose only claim was 
wealth or political influence without regard to the manner of 
its acquisition. He despised nest-stealing cuckoos, and 
jackdaws ridiculous in official plumes filched from those 
who had earned them. 
He was indignant at the . mendicant policy of some 
societies, padded with wooden members owing to the 
absence of all requirements but those which an officer of one 
of them jocosely described as "five dollars a year, and present 
immunity from compulsory attendance in the penitentiary"; 
societies which persisted in what has been called "post-obit- 
ing" supposed Maecenases, i. e. electing them to high office, 
regardless of their mental, or moral equipment, in order 
to benefit by some part of their hoard; and that too in the 
face of repeated examples that the reward for such unde- 
served honors was usually a generous monument to the em- 
inence of the donor erected somewhere else. This curious 
habit of rewarding Peter for the services of Paul, has been, 
it is true, exhibited by some really scientific men who have 
left their collections away from the scenes of their labors 
and honors; but Cope's view was that the collections of sci- 
entific men should be left to the institutions where their 
knowledge was acquired, and whence it was disseminated; 
and no disappointment was greater to him than that of be- 
ing obliged to see the best part of his own collection of a 
life-time pass away from his native city and the society in 
whose halls he had performed most of his work. Still great- 
er would have been his grief could he have foreseen that the 
remainder, which he had devoted to the foundation of a 
chair in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 
was also lost to that institution. One of his noteworthy 
characteristics was that he never forgot the respect due to 
the humblest of the societies to which he belonged, and 
