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often write. M. Matheron of Marseilles and M. Loriol of Switzer- 
land. The first named was once an active palaeontologist; he is now a 
senator from Algeria, belonging to the extreme left. * * * 
"Finally, a few nights ago, we had a grand banquet at the Conti- 
nental Hotel, a most glorious place to be sure, on the Rue Castiglione 
near the Louvre palace. I sat next to Dr. Sauvage, one of the 
secretaries of the congress, and a youngish man, with whose writ- 
ings I have long been familiar. I also met there another naturalist, 
like Sauvage, belonging at the Jardin des Plantes, Mr. Brocchi. Both 
these men had been going over my work. 
"I have received lots of books and had a call from Professor Ernst 
Hackel of Jena, Germany. * * * 
"At the last meeting of the Geological society I was nominated for 
membership in the Geological Society of France by Professor Gau- 
dry, the president, and Professor Hebett, the president of the late 
Geological Congress, and member of the institute, the two most im- 
portant members. I consider this quite an honor." 
"Paris, September 29, 1878. * * My last excursion was to 
Reims, 180 miles in Champagne, where I went to visit a Dr. Lemoine 
and his collection. The collection I found very important, as it com- 
bines the faunse of two or three formations of our western regions 
which are separate with us, and especially includes the beasts, etc., of 
the Upper Missouri region which I discovered in 1865, which have 
never before been found in Europe. All are from Reims! I found 
eight or ten of the genera which I named in 1865-6, some since then 
described by French authorities." 
"London, December 10, 1878. * * j have seen several old friends 
since coming here; Prof. Owen, Dr. Giither, Mr. Seeley, and several 
new ones. Mr. Seeley has always been my fast friend through evil as 
well as good report and is so still. He is one of the ablest men in the 
country, and is a friend worth having. I have spent two evenings 
there and go again this evening and will meet another palaeontologist, 
Mr. Hulke. * * j purchased the collections of fossils from Buenos 
Ayres in the Exposition. It is the only lot of the kind that has ever 
come to N. America, though they have been known in London, Paris, 
etc., for a long time. It is a splendid collection." 
During 1878 Prof. Cope published forty-one scientific pa- 
pers. 
On March 25, 1879, he was elected a member of the Coun- 
cil of the Academy of Natural Sciences, (in which he had been 
an ex officio member during his terms as curator and corres- 
ponding secretary), and held this office till January, 1880. 
"Coles Station, Cal., September i, 1879. * * At 4 a. m. I reached 
the U. S. fish breeding station, on the McCloud river. * * * j^ the 
afternoon we passed the Castle Peak, a wonderful serrate crag rising 
naked from the surrounding hills and forest. Then we came to a wat- 
