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Henry Fairfield Osborn, who headed the New York Zoological Society and the board of trustees of the American Museum of Natural History (and, as a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, named...
The second part of the apology addressed two of the group’s founders — Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn — and their advancement of “eugenics-based, pseudoscientific racism.”
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS [1] (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) [2] 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 .
Part I of II. by Michael Barker. (Swans - February 13, 2012) In common parlance Henry Fairfield Osborn's racial legacy (1857-1935) remains largely unknown, but as the president of the American Museum of Natural History (1908-33) and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1928), Osborn was, in his day, "second only ...
“I am convinced,” said Osborn, that the “spiritual, physical, moral and intellectual structure” of individuals is “based on racial characteristics.”
Henry Fairfield Osborn’s 25 years of supporting eugenics at AMNH. It is difficult to find any substantive discussion on AMNH’s website of the racist and colonialist views and practices that shaped the collection of artifacts and display designs that millions of 20 th and 21 st century
By flooding the market, Osborn, with sympathetic textbook authors and a socially conservative public as accomplices, advanced a racialized theory of evolution that resisted countervailing evidence for decades, survived Piltdown’s fall in 1953, and tainted the teaching of biology in high schools and colleges well into the 1970s.
