. Biology in America. Biology. Early Naturalists 43 one of its Sunday issues. The very next Sunday, however, Marsh, who, it appears, had likewise been accumulating a private stock of Copeiana, proved with equal success that Cope's life was one long string of errors from first to last. "Heredity makes strange bedfellows. It is only by the most extraordinary combination of personal characteristics that we find among scientific men of the greatest capacity, such strange mixtures of personal qualities side by side with ; ^ Possibly it was some of these early rivalries which prompt
. Biology in America. Biology. Early Naturalists 43 one of its Sunday issues. The very next Sunday, however, Marsh, who, it appears, had likewise been accumulating a private stock of Copeiana, proved with equal success that Cope's life was one long string of errors from first to last. "Heredity makes strange bedfellows. It is only by the most extraordinary combination of personal characteristics that we find among scientific men of the greatest capacity, such strange mixtures of personal qualities side by side with ; ^ Possibly it was some of these early rivalries which prompted Bret Harte 's classic little gem of comedy, '' The Society upon the ; A pathetic figure among the makers of American science is Lesquereux, the Swiss botanist, and associate of Louis Agassiz, He was born in the province of Nenchatel, Switzerland, in 1806, emigrating to America in 1848. His interest was at first in living plants, but he later devoted himself almost entirely to a study of fossil forms. After coming to America he was connected with several state surveys, and later with the terri- torial surveys under Hayden. His work on the coal forming plants of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Arkansas served chiefly to make his reputation. He worked nnder peculiar disadvantages, being but a poor master of English, and becom- ^^^ Gray ing deaf at an early age. He once From Popular Science Monthly. said of himself, "My deafness cut copy furnished by Oonrad me off from everything that lay cMca'^o ^^^^ company. outside of science. I have lived with nature, the rocks, the trees, the flowers. They know me. I know them. All outside are dead to me.'' ® It is in connection with these early surveys that we first meet with the names of many men famous in the annals of American science, who are still living, or have but recently passed away—Jordan, the ichthyologist, and more recently the philosopher and apostle of pacifism, Coulter, the botanist, Gilbert, the ic
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