100 The Atnericaji Geologist. August, 19(10 
His scientific publications for the year were fourteen in 
number. 
At the close of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia 
in October, 1876, the splendid success which had crowned their 
labor induced the public spirited citizens of Philadelphia to 
put forth efforts to retain in that city a permanent monument 
of it. A special feature of the permanent exhibition was the 
Educational Department. Cope was made chief of the division 
of "organic material" including specimens illustrating these 
two branches, and the author was put in charge of the division 
of inorganic material, including those illustrating lithology, 
geology and manufactured chemicals. 
Cope took the greatest interest in this project. He fre- 
cjuently refers to this subject in the letters of the next two or 
three years. 
"Houston, Tex., September 12, 1877." * * I obtained a nearly 
complete skull at Dallas and a wonderful saurian." 
"San Antonio, Tex., September 16, 1877." * * At Houston {:2i,- 
000 people), we saw the city and caught a very peculiar little toad 
(Enoystoma), which made the street gutters vocal with its cry. T 
have since heard it in San Antonio streets. * * * T\\^ weather 
has been hot like Philadelphia in the Centennial year. But there is a 
strong breeze every evening, which is most delightful, bringing sleep 
and comfort. It comes over the plains from the gulf, a veritable sea 
breeze. This is almost a part of the Mexican zoological region. * *" 
During 1877 Cope published forty-seven scientific papers. 
"Philadelphia, January 29, 1878. Dear F. * * I have in- 
structed our publisher to add your name to the list of contributors.'" 
(To the American Naturalist.) 
Dr. goes on also as he will furnish Swedish news." * * 
"Haddonfield, N. J., April 3, 1878. Dear F. * * You now 
have an example of the beauties of the action of a body constituted 
as is the Academy — that logic does not always enter its head at the 
proper time. * * I abandon the lesser fight for the sake of the 
success of the greater. This course was illogical, doubtless, but the 
greater logic of a dispute is success." * * 
"May 21, 1878. 2102 Pine St. Dear Wife * * Prof. Hunt is going 
to attend the Geological Congress in Paris and wants me to go with 
him. This I am much disposed to do. I think it will do me much 
good and I will also attend the meeting of the British Association 
at Dublin. On some accounts it is not convenient to go, but I must 
counteract the mud, which appears to have stuck over there 
in several places. I have a disposition also to go to Texas to where 
