BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
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that then sprang up and lasted for some years. His mental 
alertness and responsiveness to all the humorous sides of life 
made him a delightful companion. 
Of French and Quaker descent, with the stolid character¬ 
istics of the Quaker, he had inherited from the French the art 
of living a happy life. Notwithstanding Professor Cope’s 
mental broadness in general, he did not believe in woman’s 
equality with man. This rested mainly upon the fact that men 
do the policing of the world, the hard labor, and the fighting. 
He also based her more infantile traits upon the fact that cer¬ 
tain embryonic characteristics are more persistent in her than 
in man. Still he did grant woman some reason for her exist¬ 
ence, as being essential to man’s comfort and the perpetuation 
of the race. He was generous to woman to this extent, though 
he would deny her suffrage. He claimed that because she was 
man’s intellectual and physical inferior, she needed all the more 
the higher education in order to help her overcome her natural 
disabilities, and on every occasion, in public lectures or in pri¬ 
vate, he was woman’s warm aider in forwarding her scientific 
work or opportunities. Later when I had taken up the study 
of plant chemistry, Cope helped me secure specimens of unstud¬ 
ied plants of Mexico and Central America; he urged me to 
pursue research, publish my investigations, speak before so¬ 
cieties, attend scientific meetings, collect specimens of fishes, 
batrachia, reptiles, plants, and in innumerable ways gave me 
the weight of his experience, encouragement, and hours of his 
time to acquaint me with the subjects in which he especially 
worked. I have still by me the summary of his instruction in 
comparative osteology. I consider his influence in my life of 
inexpressible importance. 
It was mainly owing to his presentations of the life of re¬ 
search that I afterwards discontinued my medical studies and 
because of ill health decided to take up other lines. 
Among the many pleasant scientific excursions we enjoyed 
together I may mention one in 1885. After the meeting of the 
American Association at Ann Arbor, which I attended accom¬ 
panied by my father, he, Professor Cope, and myself started 
on a trip across the continent to the Yellowstone National 
