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...Henry Fairfield Osborn, president, American Museum of Natural History: "Last week my wife and our curator's wife, Mrs. Barnum Brown, and Mrs. Childs Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which...
...Soule '27 has been appointed head usher for the Committee in charge of the Tea and E. B. Jackson '28 has been named as his assistant. They will be assisted in their duties by G. P. Davis '29, Alexander Donald '27, John Fairfield '28, G. L. Garrison '28, W. H. Gratwick 1G., H. C. Newman 1G., E. H. Other 1G., G. H. Perkins 1G., W. D. Richmond 2G., J. O. Ross '29, Madison Sayles '27, E. P. White '28 and J. R. Wood 2G.B...
Poring over maps in Manhattan in the so-called 20th century, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History put two enormous twos together and obtained a daring hypothetical four: similar fossils having been found in Europe and in western North America, there must have been a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska; central Asia had been the original point of dispersal of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Dr. Osborn mentioned the matter to his ablest zoologist and that young man, Roy Chapman Andrews, industriously raised half a million dollars to take a band of assorted scientists...
...opening speech of their royal president, smooth Edward of Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin's champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, and empurpled...
Frail woman cries quickly that she is ill and for that very trick lives longer than man. Hygienist Letitia Denny Fairfield of London* has just completed analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost...