Edward D Cope

Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants

This major expansion and revision of W. C. Muenscher's popular reference work brings a wealth of botanical knowledge up to date in an easy-to-access format. Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants enables its users to identify trees and shrubs in all seasons by means of diagnostic field characteristics inc...

Battle of the Dinosaur Bones: Othniel Charles Marsh Vs Edward Drinker Cope (Scientific Rivalries and Scandals)

In the 1880s, science witnessed a major shift: Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution. People dug up the first dinosaur fossils. And the field of paleontology--the study of ancient plants and animals--emerged. Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope became enthralled with these new id...

Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology

The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific. The railroads led the way, a...

Aristotle: Rhetoric (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

Edward Meredith Cope (1818-1873) was an English scholar of classics who served as Fellow and Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the leading Greek specialists of his time, Cope published An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric in 1867. Though now considered a 'standard work', that Introducti...

Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America: A Guide (Comstock Book)

This useful manual provides a means for easy identification of the native and cultivated conifers of northeastern North America. The territory covered is roughly eastern Canada and the northeastern fourth of the United States, from Maine south to the southern border of Pennsylvania, west to Kansas, ...

The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), the grandson of wealthy Phila. merchant, grew up to be a keenly intellectual, energetic, and argumentative naturalist. He was among the last of the great school of late 19th century naturalists who studied almost everything, excelling in the study of reptiles, amphib...

The Dinosaur Bone Battle Between O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope (Dinosaurs and Their Discoverers)

Tells the story of two nineteenth-century paleontologists who used questionable tactics as they tried to outdo each other in collecting dinosaur bones.

The dinosaur hunters: Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope

Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants: An Expanded Guide to Native and Cultivated Species

Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America: A Guide

Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution and the Primary Factors of Organic Evolution

The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West, Vol I-Text, Vol Ii-Plates

Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ...