Re: 105th anniversary of the death of E.D. Cope(joke)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/11/02 7:25:41 PM EST, Buckaroobwana@aol.com writes:

<< "Help! Help! get me out of this coffin!" >>

Actually, his remains are in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 
collection, as specified in his will. So he might instead have said, "Help! 
Help! Get me out of this drawer!" A recent interesting perspective on Cope as 
the "lectotype specimen" of Homo sapiens (NOT!: Linnaeus himself is, as 
designated by Stearn, 1959) is this:

Spamer, Earle E., 1999. "Know thyself: Responsible science and the lectotype 
of _Homo sapiens_ Linnaeus, 1758," Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia 149: 109-114 [Jan 29, 1999].