Henry Fairfield Osborn, "The Corner-Stones of Learning. An Address delivered by Henry Fairfield Osborn...on Laying the Corner-stone of Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, May 2, 1896." No indication of place of publication or printer.
Provenance: Samuel Pierpont Langley's copy, signed to him by Osborne while Langley was secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Fairfield was a professor at Columbia, then to Smithsonian, and then to the Library of Congress. Original wrappers. A Good copy, only, the paper browned and becoming brittle. $125
Osborne was (1857-1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years. "In 1880, Osborn obtained a Sc.D. in paleontology from Princeton, becoming a Lecturer in Biology and Professor of Comparative Anatomy from the same university (1883–1890). In 1891, Osborn was hired by Columbia University as a professor of zoology; simultaneously, he accepted a position at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where he served as the curator of a newly formed Department of Vertebrate Paleontology."--Wiki Langley (1834 –1906) of course was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor, and pioneer of aviation.
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