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 [log in to unmask] ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).