Word: osborn
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Thus assured, Joker Barnes grabbed the train for New York. Earnest scientists from all over North America were gathering for the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, under the thoughtful presidency of famed Dr. Henry Fairfield. Osborn (TIME, Dec. 31). Jolter Barnes fidgeted while they delivered their addresses. Then he got his chance...
Zeus of all those Olympians is of course Henry Fairfield Osborn, 71, president of the American Association. That presidency is the highest honor that U. S. and Canadian scientists can give a colleague. Yet its tenure is for only one year and a man must have a permanent post. What such post any one scientist considers best is hard to indicate. Generally the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is best esteemed. To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Dr. Osborn declined. He preferred to stay on as assistant...
Under Jesup, Dr. Osborn was in the glory of manifold activities. He searched the Rocky Mountain states for vertebrate fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value. Outside the Museum he was lucidly teaching biology and zoology at Columbia, scientifically reorganizing the New York Zoological Park, and deftly getting money support from municipal authorities. One vexation he had. Administrative and organization work and the preparation of his paleontological papers prevented his writing the many books whose subjects tumbled through his thoughts...
Then, in 1908, President Jesup died and Dr. Osborn dutifully took his place. The post meant more work. That he recognized was good for him, for it forced him to reorganize his activities. He did so and had time to write his books. In 1910 he wrote three, last year three and in between a half dozen others. They, more than the works of any other recent writer, have served to make unspecialized readers think scientifically...
Leadership is, apparently, an inherited characteristic of Dr. Osborn's family. His father, William Henry Osborn, was a founder and for many years president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Ancestors were the Osborns of colonial Salem, Mass. On Dr. Osborn's mother's side, Nathan Gold and Andrew Ward were active in the Revolution; Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton was one of the three founders of Princeton (where Dr. Osborn later studied and taught); Jonathan Sturges was a president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Osborn has an able younger brother. William Church Osborn, 66, Manhattan lawyer...