See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD DRINKER See also:

• COPE
• COPE (M.E. cape, cope, from Med. Lat. capa, cappa)
• EDWARD DRINKER COPE (1840-1897)
• COPE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1818-1873)

COPE (1840-1897)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American palaeontologist, descended from a See also:

• WILTSHIRE [WILTS]

Wiltshire See also:

• FAMILY

family who emigrated about 1687, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia on the 28th of See also:

• JULY

July 184o . At an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he became interested in natural See also:

• HISTORY

history, and in 1859 communicated a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper on the Salamandridae to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia . He was educated partly in the University of See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, and after further study and travel in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe was in 1865 appointed See also:

• CURATOR (Lat. for " one who takes care," curare, to take care of)

curator to the Academy of Natural Sciences, a See also:

• POST

post which he held till 1873 . In 1864–67 he was See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of natural See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science in Haverford See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, and in 1889 he was appointed professor of See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology and palaeontology in the University of Pennsylvania . To the study of the American fossil See also:

• VERTEBRATA

vertebrata he gave his See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . From 1871 to 1877 he carried on explorations in the Cretaceous strata of See also:

• KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas, the See also:

• TERTIARY

Tertiary of See also:

• WYOMING

Wyoming and See also:

• COLORADO

Colorado; and in course of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he made known at least 6oc See also:

• SPECIES

species and many genera of See also:

• EXTINCT

extinct vertebrata new to science . Among these were some of the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest known See also:

• MAMMALIA (from Lat. mamma, a teat or breast)

mammalia, obtained in New See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico . He served on the U.S . See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

Geological Survey in 1874 in New Mexico, in 1875 in See also:

• MONTANA

Montana, and in 1877 in See also:

• OREGON

Oregon and See also:

• TEXAS

Texas . He was also one of the editors of the American Naturalist . He died in Philadelphia on the 12th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1897 .