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EDWARD DRINKER COPE (1840-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD DRINKER COPE (1840-1897)  ,
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American palaeontologist, descended from a Wiltshire
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family who emigrated about 1687, was born in
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Philadelphia on the 28th of
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July 184o . At an early age he became interested in natural
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history, and in 1859 communicated a paper on the Salamandridae to the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia . He was educated partly in the University of Pennsylvania, and after further study and travel in
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Europe was in 1865 appointed curator to the Academy of Natural Sciences, a
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post which he held till 1873 . In 1864–67 he was professor of natural science in Haverford College, and in 1889 he was appointed professor of geology and palaeontology in the University of Pennsylvania . To the study of the American fossil
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vertebrata he gave his
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special attention . From 1871 to 1877 he carried on explorations in the Cretaceous strata of Kansas, the
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Tertiary of
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Wyoming and
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Colorado; and in course of time he made known at least 6oc
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species and many genera of
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extinct vertebrata new to science . Among these were some of the
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oldest known mammalia, obtained in New Mexico . He served on the U.S .
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Geological Survey in 1874 in New Mexico, in 1875 in
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Montana, and in 1877 in
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Oregon and
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Texas . He was also one of the editors of the American Naturalist . He died in Philadelphia on the 12th of
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April 1897 .

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