Re: Marsh & Cope biography

[Michael Corriss <mcorriss@gate.net>]

Majid Mirzaie:
Howdy!
There's quite a number of writings on Cope and Marsh. 

from my library shelves:
BOOKS:

 Schuchert, Charles & Clara Mae LeVene 1940  _O. C. Marsh; Pioneer in
Paleontology_  Yale University press, New Haven (cheaper 1978 reprint
available - Arno Press, NY)
a good detailed source focused on Othniel Charles Marsh (541 pages)

 Jaffe, Mark 2000 _The Gilded Dinosaur : The Fossil War Between E.D.
Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science_ Crown Publishers, 
NY 
inexpensive and readily available (424 pages)

 Holmes, Thom 1998 _Fossil Feud : The First American Dinosaurs Hunters_
Julian Messner, Parsippany 
published by The Dinosaur Society (160 pages)

 Lanham, Url  1973 _The Bone Hunters_  Columbia University Press, NY
(285 pages)

 Wallace, David Rains 1999 _The Bonehunters' Revenge : Dinosaurs, Greed,
and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age_ Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston (366 pages)

 Plate, Robert 1964 _The Dinosaur Hunters Othniel C. Marsh  Edward D.
Cope_ David McKay Company, Inc., NY (281 pages)

 Hellman, Hal 1998 _Great Feuds in Science Ten of the Liveliest Disputes
Ever._ John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY (240 pages)

 Howard, Robert West 1975 _The Dawnseekers The First History of American
Paleontology_  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY (314 pages)

 Kohl, Michael F. and John S. McIntosh. (Eds.). 1997 _Discovering
Dinosaurs in the Old West The Field Journals of Arthur Lakes_
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 
one of Marsh's workers (198 pages)

 Colbert, Edwin H. 1968 _Men and Dinosaurs The Search in Field and
Laboratory The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discovery of the World
of the Prehistoric Reptiles_ E.P.Dutton & Co.,Inc., NY (283 pages)

MAGAZINES:

 Ballou, Willia H. March 1908 "Some Great American Scientists VII.
Edward Drinker Cope" _The Chautauquan_  p.100-117

 Bishop, George W. editor November 1972 "Fossil Hunting on the Plains of
Kansas - Tracking Down the Pterodactyl with Professor Othniel C. Marsh"
_The American West The Magazine of Western History_  Volume IX, Number 6
p.34-41

 Huntington, Tom  August 1978 "The Great Feud" _American History_ vol.
XXXIII No.3  p.14-20,62-63

 Penick, James  August 1971 "Professor Cope vs. Professor Marsh A bitter
feud among the bones" _American Heritage_ Volume XXII, No 5 p.4-13,91-95

 Marsh, Othniel C. (intro. James Penick,Jr.) June 1970 "A Ride for Life
in a Buffalo Herd" _American Heritage_ vol.XXI, No.4  p.46-47,77

and from my files:
(I haven't obtained these yet so I'm not certain about the accuracy of
the citations)

"OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH, PROFESSOR OF PALEONTOLOGY" _Scientific American_
May 1, 1886 

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. LV New Series, Vol.
XXXIII. November, 1897 to April, 1898 Edward Drinker Cope

DAVIS, William Harper. "Edward Drinker Cope as a geographer."
Philadelphia, PA: Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1932  THE
BULLETIN OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA Vol. 30, 1932.
Pp.157-162

Frazer, Percifor. The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope. Bull.
Amer. Geol., Vol. 26, NO. 2 (1900). Paper P. 67-128.

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

 Holland Tom The Bone Hunter Time Warner UK, 2002. (I think this is a
fictional novel)

 Holmes, Thomas B. and Pharo, Merritt W. (additional research by
Katherine M. Tassini)
THE HADDONFIELD HOME OF EDWARD DRINKER COPE: REMEMBERING THE COPE-PHARO
HOUSE
Haddonfield, NJ Haddonfield Historical Soc. 1992. 27pp This monograph
was presented for the first time at the Annual meeting of the Historical
Society of Haddonfield held on Sunday, September 20, 1992. Illustrated
by B&W illustrations. Binding is PB

 Davidson,Jane P. 1997 _The Bone Sharp_ Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia

 Jaffe,Bernard _Men of science in America_ 1944

 Marsh, O. C. 1873. Reply to Professor Cope's Explanation. The American
Naturalist, 1873, pp. i-ix. 

 Osborn,Henry Fairfield  1931 _Cope: Master Naturalist_ Princeton
University Press

 OSBORN, Henry F. Biographical Memoir of Edward Drinker Cope 1840-1897.
In: National Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Vol. XIII,
Frontispiece, 1 leaf, pp. 127-317. Washington DC: 1930. Bibliography of
Cope's writings is pp. 172-317

 PENGUIN BOOKS LTD DINOSAUR HUNTER FILE 2000

 Shor, Elizabeth  _The Fossil Feud_  Cope and Marsh 

-mpc
Michael Patrick Corriss
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