Wilfred Hudson Osgood

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Wilfred Hudson Osgood in 1897

Wilfred Hudson Osgood (December 8, 1875 – June 20, 1947) was an American

zoologist
.

Biography

Osgood was born in

Cooper Ornithological Club and found company in Chester Barlow and Rollo H. Beck. He taught at a school in Arizona for a year and then moved to the newly formed Stanford University, where he came to meet Charles H. Gilbert and David Starr Jordan. He joined the staff of the Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, of the United States Department of Agriculture at the age of 22. This group later became the Bureau of Biological Survey under Clinton Hart Merriam.[1]

In 1909 he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and curator of zoology from 1921 to 1940. He collected in North America and Chile. He traveled with Louis Agassiz Fuertes to Ethiopia as part of the 1926-27 Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition.[2] He wrote The Mammals of Chile (1943) and co-wrote Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia (1936).[3] He died a bachelor on 20 June 1947.

While working at the Field Museum, he was elected a member of the

Teddy Roosevelt) in 1910.[4]

Literature

References

  1. JSTOR 4081211
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  2. ^ "Louis Agassiz Fuertes: Archival Collections". Archives at The Field. Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. JSTOR 1375238
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  4. ^ "Roosevelt in London Society". New York Tribune. New York. December 23, 1910. Retrieved October 3, 2016.

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