RE: A sad day in Paleontology

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Jane P. Davidson
>
> I found your story about Dr. Colbert's last hours touching. Those who saw
> Edward Cope at his last reported a similar event.  He was desperately ill
> and yet his close friend Persifor Frazer reported that a few days before
> he died Cope delivered "out of his delerium a lecture on the Felidae with
> all his charm of manner and diction and all his profound knowledge of the
> history of the suject."

When I go, that sounds like the way to do it...  I wonder if we'll every
find out what the subject of Colbert's final lecture was?