From:    Gale Motter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: graves in museums

>>Edward Drinker Cope,a famous paleontologist at the Academy of Natural
Sciences, is actually part of the collections in Philadelphia. He requested
that his skeleton be prepared and used for the type specimen of Homo
sapiens. He died in 1897, in 1994 he finally got his wish. For the whole
story, check out "Hunting Dinosaurs" by Louie Psihoyos.<<

Museum-l'ers,

Well yes and no.  "Part of the collections in Philadelphia," but not the
Academy of Natural Sciences, which may be inferred from the above. 
According to Jane P. Davidson in The Bone Sharp, the Life of Edward
Drinker Cope, 1997, p. 160, Cope's brain is deposited at the Wistar
Institute and his bones (p. 161) are at the University's [of Pennsylvania]
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where they had been under
the care of Loren Eiseley.  After Eiseley's death (I'm paraphrasing) there
was an attempt to get the bones buried with the rest of Cope's family
but it didn't happen.  The Academy of Natural Sciences has long since
deaccessioned (to the University Museum) all its anthropological holdings.
(The Egyptian mummies, for those familiar with our institution, are on
loan from the University Museum.)

Elana Benamy
Collection Manager, Invertebrate Biology
Academy of Natural Sciences
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