Edivai'd Drinker Cope. — Frazer. gi 
while others are not greater than mice. Not one of them is living yet 
and nothing like a great many of them has ever been seen by human 
eyes." 
In 1872 he published fifty-six scientific papers. 
Haddonfield, January 12. 1873. * * "I had promised two articles 
for an atlas and cyclopaedia each, last spring, and had to finish thera 
post-haste, before getting at my Wyoming fossils." 
"The first brought $100, the second about $200. The latter is a 
monograph of comparative anatomy and with that for the atlas (on 
geographical distribution) will form two important sections of my 
book in which I made so much "progress" when convalescent at Fort 
Bridger. The Eobasileus is the first fossil I have given especial atten- 
tion to. Prof. Marsh wants to consider its related forms as indicative 
of a new order of mammalia, but more study convinces me that they 
are Proboscidians in almost every respect, only differing in physiog- 
nomy greatly. They had a proboscis I am now quite sure, and walked 
with the knee far below the body as elephants do. Their looks would 
be thus (Fig. 8). A form different enough from elephants generally, 
but reminding one more of the hog. If the front were filled up by the 
enormous air chambers of the elephant, the aspect would be greatly 
changed, without altering the true affinities equally. The front view 
is especially strange. (The horns and head are rather too large in 
this drawing.)" (Fig. 9). (Plate XV). 
Haddonfield, Feb. 5, 1873. Speaking of a dinner given to Prof. 
Tyndale he says "It was a good assembly of 500, mostly naturalists, 
and though the dinner was good, there was more reason and soul and 
no conviviality in the usual sense; Evarts the lawyer presided and 
Tyndale, Draper, Barnard, etc., spoke for science, and Beecher and 
Dr. Bellows for theology. The whole subject was well handled and I 
was particularly pleased with Beecher, whose acquaintance I afterwards 
made. Bellows was not afraid of his audience and told them plain gos- 
pel. He tol'd Tyndale, that on his departure he should have as many 
of his prayers as he would believe in, and alluded generally to prayer 
in a very effective and graceful manner. Tyndale in his remarks spoke 
largely of a sense of duty, which he considered important, etc." 
Washington, D. C, March 16, 1873 * * "Some one Has just 
endowed a chair of natural history at Princeton college to be called 
the Henry chair, and Prof. H. recommended me to Prof. McCosh to 
fill it. The latter objected to my evolution sentiments, for those 
views are much condemned at Princeton. I have not much intention 
of fixing myself there, as the hours and work generally will probably 
require too much time, but I may find the University of Pennsylvania 
better, especially as it is nearer home. One or the other I will prob- 
ably undertake." 
"It seems very hard for some to accept any evidence except that of 
the senses, and having no other, they deny supernaturalism and even 
class it with delusions. It is hard to reason with such men, especially 
