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  1. Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. (15 January 1887 – 16 September 1969), was an American conservationist. He was longtime president of the New York Zoological Society (today known as the Wildlife Conservation Society).

  2. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.

  3. Mar 29, 2024 · Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American paleontologist, eugenicist, and museum administrator who greatly influenced the art of museum display and the education of paleontologists in the United States and Great Britain. Born to a prominent and wealthy family, Osborn was the eldest son of railroad.

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  5. Nov 12, 2022 · Henry Fairfield Osborn. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a student at Princeton University, joined the Princeton Expedition of 1877 to collect paleontological and geological information in the West. On July 11, 1877, Professor Brackett, Osborn, and other students arrived at the Florissant fossil beds.

  6. May 17, 2018 · OSBORN, HENRY FAIRFIELD. ( b. Fairfield, Connecticut, 8 August 1857; d. Garrison, New York, 6 November 1935) vertebrate paleontology, origins of the mammals, human evolution, museum administrator. Although Osborn is best remembered as the outspoken president of the American Museum of Natural History, one of his consuming scientific pursuits was ...

  7. Henry Fairfield's mother, Virginia Sturges Osborn, was a woman of genuine piety and humanity, who took a prominent part in works of charity and devotion in New York. Concern-ing the influence of Osborn's mother upon her son, his brother, William Church Osborn, in answer to an inquiry from the Reverend Henry S. Coffin, wrote as follows (December 3,

  8. Henry Fairfield Osborn was a student of Cope. He was instrumental in expanding the exhibits and research program at the American Museum of Natural History. He led many fossil hunting expeditions in the American West and trained many of the vertebrate paleontologists in the early 20th century.

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