Edward Drinker Cope
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Edward Drinker Cope was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy int
Portrait of Cope, c. 1895
Cope's Pine Street residence
Illustration plate to Cope's 1870 description of several reptiles, including an improperly reconstructed Elasmosaurus (foreground)
Illustration plate from Cope's The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the Far West, featuring the skulls of Canidae from the "John Day Epoch" in Oregon
Gentleman farmer
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In the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, a gentleman farmer is a landowner who owns a farm as part of his estate and who farms as a hobby rather than for profit or sustenance.
Edward Drinker Cope
…himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations. Cope had little formal scientific training, and he eschewed a teaching position for field…
West Park Farm, formerly a Gentleman's Farm