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| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Where Is Cope's Face?
Where Is Cope's Face?
Page Range: 76 – 77
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) willed his body to science. This accounts for a published description of his skull 10 years after his death, the emergence of his skeleton from obscurity 17 years ago, and now the mystery of his face. In this instance "face" means the one which, around 1914, H. H. Wilder of Smith College reconstructed in clay on the face of Cope's skull.
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