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Wallace, David Rains. The Bonehunters' Revenge. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 

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Edward at 6 started to record and make letters about natural history that he saw at museums and in real life

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1860-1864 Edward studied living and fossil organisms at "the Philadelphia Academy and Smithsonian, then at the British Museum and other European institutions." (pg 18)

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In 1864 he got a job at Haverford to be a professor of Zoology.

Quote:""In the fall of 1864, he became a profssor of zoology at Havergord College, a position obtained through family influence."  (pg 21)

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(1847-1863) He went to different colleges to study mineralogy, geology, and natural history.

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Both Edward and Othniel started their paleontology carrers

Quote: "Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh thus began their palentology careers not only with financial independce and a near-virgin field exploration, but at the cutting edge of comtemporay science. " (pg 38)

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In Berlin in 1863, the 2 professers met each other for the first time.

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Their rivaily started to evole but in the late 1860's Cope was getting more interested in Marsh

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Marsh was developing a public imgage

Quote: "Fortunately, Othneil was developing a fair for publicity. His devil sifh discovery and the 'human remains' debunking had received wide newspaper play." (pg 54)

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In 1868 Marsh went West for the first time to find fossils

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Cope also went west for his first fossil trip

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Marsh didn't want people to be in his space while collecting fossils

Quote: "He didn't welcome the prospect of Cope or Leidy being in what he considered his territory... he 'entered every field of acquisition with the dominating ambition to obtain everything that was in it, and leave not a single thing behind.'" (pg 78)

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After the fossil trip to the west, Edward felt a bit weak

Quote: "He wrote to his father: 'I am now so convalescent as to be to write to thee...with my own had. Nothing is left of the fever but the weakness'... Cope suffered from huge carbuncle on his neck." (pg 81)

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After both of their fossil trips, the 2 men starting naming their dinosaur fossils

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In 1877 Cope and Marsh were still arguing

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In 1890 Cope worked with the Herald to attack Marsh and another paleontologist named Powell

Quote: "The 1890 Sunday Herald was not as lavishly designed and illustrated as Sunday papers would soon be.

Scientists Wage Bitter Warfare
Prof. Cope of University of Pennslyvania
brings Serious Charges Against Director Powell                                               and Prof. Marsh of the Geological Survey                             " (pg 217)

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Other newspaper sites started to write about the Cope-Marsh feud

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Marsh wrote against Cope

Quote: "              Marsh Hurls Azoic Facts At Cope
Yale Professor Picks up the Gauntlet of the
Pennslyvania Paleontologist and Does Royal
Battle in Defense of his Scientific Reputation       " (pg239)

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Marsh wrote that Cope during their meeting was a bad person

Quote:" Marsh wrote in 1890, when he was trying to convince the New York Herald readers that Cope was mentally and morally unfit...Cope doubtless did most of the talking, bragging of his accomplishments while complaining about his problems." (pgs 38-39)

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Cope seems to have stopped coming after Marsh and Powell

Quote:  "Cope stopped his active pursuit of Marsh and Powell after 1890. To a degree, the bitter medicine of the Herald affair seems to have crush his Marsh fever." (pg 255)

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Cope had seemed to died because he was ill

Quote: "But Cope's long-suffering kindey's had failed, and uremic poisoning had set in... on April 12, 1897, he died." (pg 275)

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Marsh knew he was sick and was gonna die soon

Quote: " He never eft his home again and in less than a week (March 18) was daed of pneumonia" (pg 283)