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Edward Drinker Cope

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Edward Drinker Cope

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 21 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Noted American paleontologist and comparative anatomist (1840–1897) who founded the Neo-Lamarckism school of thought. The intense competition to discover new fossils between Cope and his rival, Othniel Charles Marsh, has become known as the ‘Bone Wars’ or ‘Great Dinosaur Rush.’ Original 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Cope with one of his fossilized skulls, by J. W. Hurn of Philadelphia, signed on the reverse in black ink, “Edw. D. Cope, please exchange,” identifying the fossil as that of “Loxolophodon cornutus.” In fine condition, with light overall toning. A telegram from Cope published by the American Philosophical Society indicates that he discovered the fossil in southern Wyoming on or about August 17, 1872.