In 1884 he was the curator of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. and in 1891 taught geology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1896 he held the position of president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During his career he discovered and described over 1,000 species of fossil vertebrates and published 600 separate titles. Links to images The following are all of the image links within this finding aid. Summary of collection Letters, notebooks, notes and sketches related to Cope's work in paleontology and related natural sciences.
Collection contains sketches of birds, reptiles and amphibians, some colored.
Includes letters on various scientific subjects from Alexander Agassiz , Louis Agassiz , Alexander Graham Bell , Pliny Earle Chase , Havelock Ellis , Benjamin Apthorp Gould , Arnold Henry Guyot , Joseph Henry , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Thomas Henry Huxley , Maria Mitchell , Sir Richard Owen , Robert Edwin Peary , Herbert Spencer and others. Edward D. Cope. All rights reserved. This page maintained by Diana Franzusoff Peterson. Last updated on September 18, 1997.