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Authorised form of nameOsborn; Henry Fairfield (1857 - 1935)
Dates1857 - 1935
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthFairfield, Connecticut, USA
Date of birth08 August 1857
Place of deathGarrison, New York, USA
Date of death06/11/1935
Research fieldPalaeontology
Vertebrates
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election29/04/1926
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1918
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 67-71, plate, by A Smith Woodward
CodeNA751
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1926/06Osborn, Henry Fairfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003390Osborn, Henry Fairfieldnd
NLB/21/461Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, [Foreign Member of the Royal Society], Samsons-on-Hudson, New York22 November 1900
NLB/56/108Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John W. Davis] the American Ambassador25 November 1918
NLB/56/55Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry [Fairfield] Osborn, FRS7 November 1918
NLB/56/183Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Ellery] Hale, FRS9 December 1918
NLB/56/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry Fairfield] Osborn, FRS; New York, U.S.A18 December 1918
NLB/69/577Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Henry Fairfield] Osborn, Foreign Member of the Royal Society., Stafford Hotel, St. James's Place, SW111 June 1926
NLB/72/317Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Fairfield] Osborn, ForMemRS3 July 1929
IM/003391Osborn, Henry Fairfieldnd
NLB/56/57Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the [Royal] Mint7 November 1918
NLB/69/277Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [James Hartley] Ashworth, FRS19 February 1926
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