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Henry Fairfield Osborn ( August 8 , 1857 – November 6 , 1935 ) was an American Geologist , Paleontologist , and Eugenicist . Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut , and studied at Princeton University . He was professor of Comparative Anatomy from 1883 to 1890 at Princeton. In 1891 he became professor of Biology at Columbia University , becoming professor of Zoology in 1896. He was president of the American Museum Of Natural History from 1908 to 1935, during which time he accumulated one of the finest Fossil collections in the world. He was mentored by the paleontologist is one such contribution, his promotion of Eugenics , another. Osborn wrote an influential textbook, ''The Age of Mammals'' (1910). He also authored, ''The Origin and Evolution of Life'' (1916) . He is the father of the Conservationist and Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn ( January 15 , 1887 - September 16 , 1969 . |
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