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of Gloucester ; " 3. Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers;" and 4. " Parting of Lord and Lady Rus- sell." The time occupied on these has prevented Mr. Cope from exe- cuting large works in oil. " Two Mothers," "Contemplation," and other small pictures, were painted during intervals of relaxation. Since the completion of the fres- coes in the Peers' Corridor, Mr. Cope has exhibited a fair propor- tion of pictiires at the Boyal Aca- demy, of which the following are the chief names and dates : — " Shy- lock and Jessica," in 1867 ; "Othello relating his Adventures," and " Two Disciples at Emmaus," in 1868 ; " A Domestic Chaplain," and " Home Dreams," in 1869 j " Laun- celot Gobo's Siesta," in 1870; " Gentle and Simple," and " Guy considering Plans of tiie Hospital, in 1871 ; *' Oliver Cromwell receiv- ing a Deputation," and " The Edu- cation of George Herbert," in 1872 ; "Yes or No,^ and "The Gentle Craft," in 1878; "O Hush thee, my Babie," and "Taming the Shrew," in 1874 ; " Anne Page and Slender," " Home Attraction," and "A Pair of Captives," in 1876; " Selecting Pictures for the Boyal Academy Exhibition," in 1876 (now in the possession of the Eoyal Aca- demy) ; " Spring-time," " Bianca's Lovers," and " Hope Deferred," in 1877 ; " Lieut. Cameron's Welcome Home from his Explorations in Africa," 1878; "Sad Memories," "Hamlet and Ophelia," "Hesita- tion," and " A Country Club Meet- ing in the Olden Time," 1879; "An Inquisition," " Perplexed," and "The Good Shepherd," 1880; " Janet Escaped," and " Far Away Thoughts," 1881 ; " Summer-Time,^' ana " Anne Page and Slender," 1882. Mr. Cope was one of the original members of the Etching Club. He was appointed in 1867 to the post of Professor of Painting at the Koyal Academy, which he resigned in 1874. He is also one of the trustees of the Boyal Academy.

COPE, Edwabd Dbinksr, natu- ralist and comparative anatomist, bom at Philadelphia, July 28, 1840. He studied in the University of Pennsylvania, and anatomy in Eu- rope in 1863-4. He was Professor of Natural Science in Haverford Col- lege, Philadelphia, from 1864 to 1867, and has been Curator and Corresponding Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1871 he explored the cretaceous formations of Kansas ; in 1872 the eocene of Wyoming; in 1873 the tertiary beds of Colorado ; in 1874 was employed by the U. S. G. G. Survey under Lieut. G. M. Wheeler in New Mexico ; in 1875 in Northern Montana ; in 1877 in Oregon and Texas ; and in 1878 he had several parties exploring the Western re- gions. The result of these ex- peditions has been the creation of a collection of over 600 si)ecies of extinct vertebrate animals, of which Professor Cope has made kno¥ni to science at least 400 species. The structure of many of these animals is in the highest degree remarkable, and has been described in numerous papers, read before the scientific societies of Philadelphia, or pub- lished in the reports of the Hayden U. S. Geological Survey of the Ter- ritories, to which he is palsdonto- logist of vertebrata, or in those of Lieut. Wheeler. Professor Cope has also published essays on fishes, ba- trachians, and reptiles of various parts of the world, and has made observations on the anatomy of these animals, which have re- sulted in new views of their sys- tematic arrangement. He has, in addition, published a number of papers on the subject of evolution, commenciiig in 1869, which are to be foimd in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Scientific Societies and the Penn. Monthly Magazine, He is a member of the National Academy of Science, and, together with Prof. A. S. Packard, is editor of the American NatvLralist. He is the author of the doctrine of ''accele-

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