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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.
Mar 29, 2024 · Henry Fairfield Osborn (born August 8, 1857, Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died November 6, 1935, Garrison, New York) 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.
May 17, 2018 · Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857–1935) An American palaeontologist who taught at Princeton and Columbia Universities, Osborn was an evolutionary theorist who developed the concept of adaptive radiation. He also arranged the mammalian palaeontology exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History.
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.
Prof. Osborn's contributions to knowledge are chiefly his collection of vast numbers of facts about the structure and distribution in space and time of vertebrate fassils, and his co-ordination...
Henry Fairfield Osborn. 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.
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. 1857-1935. BY WILLIAM K. GREGORY. 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.
