Papers, 1846-1897.

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Papers, 1846-1897.

Collection consists principally of letters written by Cope to his parents and other relatives while growing up, in boarding school and, as an adult concerning his travels to Europe and elsewhere, his paleontological research, and family matters. He wrote many letters to his wife from paleontological collecting expeditions in Kansas, California, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Mexico describing his work and discussing personal matters. Also, letters to Henry Fairfield Osborn concerning scientific research; and letters from W. Carlin to Cope regarding Carlin's fossil vertebrate collecting activities. Cope's will is also included in collection.

1.2 cubic ft.

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Cope family.

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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897

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Vertebrate paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope became the leading theorist of the neo-Lamarckian movement in American biology. He sold his fossil collection to the American Museum of Natural History in 1894. From the guide to the Edward Drinker Cope Field diaries, 1872-1874, 1876-1877, 1879, 1881-1885, 1892, 1872-1892, (American Philosophical Society) Zoologist, paleontologist and educator. Member Society of Friends. Professor at Haverford College (1864-1867) and University o...

Carlin, Wendy

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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...