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PROF. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, who died at his home, Castle Rock, Garrison-on-Hudson, N.Y., on November 6, 1935, was one of the foremost palaeontologists of the United States, and made great contributions to our knowledge of fossil mammals and reptiles. He was born on August 8, 1857, at Fairfield, Connecticut, and began his scientific education in 1873 at Princeton College (afterwards University), where he was influenced especially by President James McCosh, the psychologist, and Prof. Arnold Guyot, the geologist. After graduating in 1877, he studied human anatomy and histology under Prof. William H. Welch, in New York; and in 1879-80 he followed brief courses in embryologyunder F. M. Balfour at Cambridge, and in comparative anatomy under Huxley in London. He then returned to Princeton with a biological fellowship, and in 1881 he was appointed assistant professor of natural science. In 1883 he was promoted to the professorship of comparative anatomy at Princeton, where he remained until 1891.
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W., A. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, For.Mem.R.S.. Nature 136, 784–785 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136784a0
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