 Complete the following phrase:  Alfred died December 4, 1875, and left Edward with an inheritance of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Alfreds death was a blow to Cope; his father was a constant confidant. The same year marked a suspension of much of Copes field work and a new emphasis on writing up discoveries of the previous years. His chief publication of the time, The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the West, was a collection of 303 pages and 54 illustration plates. The memoir summarized his experiences prospecting in New Jersey and Kansas. Cope now had the fices to hire multiple teams to search for fossils for him year-round and he advised the 