1 10 The America?! Geologist. August, i9(i() 
After leaving the geysers we rode East 30 miles to the great fall and 
canyon of the Yellowstone." 
During 1885 Prof. Cope published sixty-two scientific pa- 
pers. 
"Philadelphia, February 9, 1886. Dear F. I wish to suggest 
apropos of your committee Am. Phil. Soc. that one of the easiest ways 
of regulating the question of election of suitable members is to re- 
strict the number to be elected per annum. In case of the A. P. S. 
it might .be restricted to 12 or 15. In this way many inconvenient 
questions are answered, and the membership is made worth some- 
thing." * * 
"Washington, D. C, February 29, 1886. Dear F. Yours is 
received and I am interested to hear the news. It is disgusting that 
Miss was defeated, and I venture to say that she will some day 
be elected." * * 
He was right, she was. 
"Washington, D. C. May 16, 1886. * * I sent MS. of a small 
book to Putnam's, New York, a few days ago. It explains the re- 
sults of my studies in evolution in the field of theology and ethics. I 
can prove, I think, the pre-existence of mind, i. e., as existing in living 
matter before it has developed complicated structure. In other words, 
structure has been produced by motion (of the animal) (theory of 
"kinetogenesis"); and motion has been in the first place directed by 
sensation, or consciousness — (a synonym), which is a quality of mind 
only — is in fact the foundation of mind, which with the assistance of 
memory, has built up the mind of animals and men, I have learned 
the connection between the motion of animals and the development 
of their structure by my studies of paleontology. It is a satisfaction 
to me to be able to prove the fatherhood of mind or personality over 
living nature. It will be the next step to prove that it has been so 
over dead nature also. 
"A beginning in this direction can be made by considering two 
facts. One is that the matter of living things (protoplasm) cannot 
maintain chemical stability at ordinary temperatures without the pres- 
ence of life. Second, that plants compel chemical combinations of a 
complex character, (oils, resins, waxes, etc.) which do not occur in 
nature (except as products of vegetation), and have to be produced by 
intelligent men in a laboratory. This means that there is in life some 
power which can control chemical energy. I once called this kind of 
energy "autichemism". Chemists generally do not believe in any such 
thing. They think that because they can build organic compounds in 
a laboratory, therefore the plant is not endowed with any particular 
power. But the capacity to bring the compound together to the 
exclusion of others which are present, indicates in the plant some- 
thing like the selective power of the chemist in his laboratory. The 
instability of dead protoplasm is still less easily explained. 
"I am curious to see what will become of my hypothesis in this 
