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IN 1908, in the American Museum of Natural History, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn (see NATTJBE of November 16, 1935) established the Osborn Library of Vertebrate Palaeontology, presenting his personal library as a nucleus. To this the Museum added such volumes as it already possessed, its file of palaeontological periodicals which it has kept up to date, and continued purchasing such new volumes as its funds made possible. As in any departmental library, however, the separata are the greatest needs of the worker, Prof. Osborn continued to turn over to the Osborn Library files of those papers which he received from his colleagues. Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles in the Museum, asks that those who exchanged papers with Prof. Osborn during his life should continue to keep the Osborn Library on their lists, while others are invited to send copies of their papers. It will be at once a tribute to Prof. Osborn's memory and a service to fellow-workers since the Osborn Library is open to all.
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Osborn Library at New York. Nature 137, 611 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137611c0
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