Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist and eugenicist (1857-1935) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 78
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.
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Osborn in 1890
Osborn (r.) and Barnum Brown at Como-Bluff during the American Museum of Natural History expedition of 1897 with limb bone of Diplodocus specimen AMNH 223
Osborn (third from the right) with other officers of the paleontology section of the St Louis Congress
His country home, Castle Rock in Garrison, New York, 2009.
Osborn and his wife Lucretia
