Talk:Othniel Charles Marsh
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It might be a valuable anecdotal reference regarding theBone Wars to mention that Marsh namedcoprolite after ED Cope. I read that in a book on the Bone Wars. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs04:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The "Career" section of the article states that Cope had been a student of Marsh. The article on Cope ironically contains more details on Marsh than this article on Marsh. The description there of the meeting of Cope and Marsh in Europe seems to indicate that Marsh's career developed later in time than Cope's, even though Cope was 9 yrs older. So I question the claim in this article that Cope was Marsh's student, but I will leave it to others to determine its accuracy.Aftermath (talk)15:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Cope nor Marsh were students of each other. They were more or less rivals charging against each other to name the most fossils.— Precedingunsigned comment added byRaifu (talk •contribs)22:19, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Cope was a student ofLeidy's.Abyssal (talk)17:27, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously this article needs to be increased in detail. As someone has already commented here, there is more info on Marsh in Copes Page than in Marsh's!
IceDragon64 (talk)21:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
IceDragon64 (talk)21:30, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Surely the men are not ready to dig at all. If you look properly, you will see that most have rifles, not shovels in their hands! My sense of humour means I'm not going to change it, besides which I don't know what they WERE ready for?!
IceDragon64 (talk)21:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ready for Cope?!
IceDragon64 (talk)21:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all -- Marsh is a major character inMichael Crichton's novelDragon Teeth, which was published in 2017. Given the high profile of Michael Crichton, and the fact that the novel is entirely about the Bone Wars, do you think this factoid would be appropriate in the article, perhaps in a "In popular culture" section? --Cloud atlas (talk)04:18, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You should state more about family2600:1005:B14F:395:8767:5D16:84B6:4B14 (talk)19:31, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've been meaning to work on this article for a long time (originally I was going to start it after gettingEdward Drinker Cope to featured article status, and that was fourteen years ago) but finally got access to a few tough-to-find sources, including the 1940 biography and McCarren. In the interest of having content properly attributed from jump I'm developing a draft atUser:David Fuchs/draft to eventually port over. Opinions or help are welcome.Der Wohltemperierte Fuchstalk21:10, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
At one time, this page included a full paragraph of historically accurate information about Professor Marsh's involvement in exposing corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Red Cloud Agency and reporting it to President Grant in 1875. Any idea why that information would have been removed? Seems there is no point of editing it back into the page, if someone just intends to remove it again.Stormbrew (talk)16:07, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
