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Edward Drinker Cope 
1840 to 1897 

Edward Cope was a member of the  Academy of Science, Philadelphia.  From 1864 to 1867 he was professor of  comparative zoology and botany at the Haverford College, Pennsylvania.  As a dinosaur collector he competed against O. C. March for the best specimens from the U. S. Deposits in the Badlands of Utah and other famous sites.  He is credited with finding over 1000 species of vertebrate fossils and during his life he published  more than 1200 books and papers. 

 

Cope E. D., 1866, Communication in regard to the mesozoic sandstone of Pennsylvania. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadel. p. 290.

Cope E. D., 1869, Synopsis of the extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves on North America. Trans. Am. phil. Soc. 14, 1–252 & pls 1–55.

Cope E. D., 1870, Observation on Reptilia of Triassic form, etc. Proc. Am. phil. Soc.

Cope E. D., 1871, On reptilia of the Triassic formations of the Atlantic region of the U. S. Proc. Am. phil. Soc.

Cope E. D., 1871, On the extinct tortoises of the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Am. Nat. 5, 562–564.

Cope E. D., 1871, On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia and on the systematic arrangement of the Class. Proc. Am. Ass. Advmnt Sci. XIX Meet. Troy (1870), pp. 194–247.

Cope E. D., 1872, On the geology and palaeontology of the Cretaceous strata of Kansas. U. S. Geol. Survey of Montana, 5th Ann. Rep., pp. 318–349. Washington

Cope E. D., 1872, On two new Ornithosaurians from Kansas. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 12, pp. 420–422.

Cope E. D., 1874, Review of the Vertebrata of Cretaceous formations found west of the Mississippi River Sec. I. On the mutual relations of the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the west.  Sec. II. List of species of Vertebrata from the Cretaceous formations. Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territories 1 No. 2.,  pp. 3–48.

Cope E. D., 1875, The Vertebrata of Cretaceous formation of the West. Report of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories No.2  [pp. 65, 249 & pl. 7].

Cope E. D., 1879, The relations of the horizons of extinct vertebrata of Europe and America. Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territories 5, 33–54.

Cope E. D., 1885, On the evolution of the Vertebrata, progressive and retrogressive. Am. Nat. 19, 140–148, 234–247, 341–353.

Cope E. D., 1887, The origin of the fittest. Essays on evolution. New York.

Cope E. D., 1889, Synopsis of the families of Vertebrata. Am. Nat. 23, 849–877.

Cope E. D., 1891, Syllabus of lectures on geology and palaeontology. Philadelphia.

Cope E. D., 1892, The homologies of the cranial arches of the Reptilia. Trans. Am. phil. Soc. pp. 11–16. [Abst. in Am. Nat. 26, 407–408.]

Cope E. D., 1893, Kansas pterodactyls. American Naturalist 27, 37.

Cope E. D., 1898, Syllabus of lectures on the Vertebrata. Philadelphia.

Cope E. D., 1900, The crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North America. A. Rep. Smithson. Inst. (1898), part II.