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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.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, and geologist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years. Osborn was one of the great dinosaur fossil hunters of the late 19th century, and a eugenist.
Nov 12, 2022 · 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.
Henry Fairfield Osborn was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, August 8, 1857, the second child and eldest son of William Henry Osborn and Virginia Reed Osborn, nee Sturges, both of New England stock. The early American Osborns are recorded in several Massachusetts towns, particularly in Salem.
1859-1935. American naturalist, evolutionary biologist, and long-time head of the American Museum of Natural History. Osborn studied natural history and biology with some of the premier scientists of the nineteenth century, including Arnold Guyot, T.H. Huxley, and Edward Drinker Cope.
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