Abstract
HERE is a most impressive monument to the accomplishment of a great scientific worker. Osborn early found that “research is work of the hardest kind, requiring persistence, intelligence, and imagination”, and all those qualities are necessary for a proper understanding of this skeleton of a life's work. Its main bulk is made up of a chronological and a classified list of the author's publications, 801 of them of the share he has taken in the work of learned academies, revealed by lists of awards, degrees, and fellowships; and little space is left for a personal or intimate account of the great adventure. But the outstanding facts are clear.
Fifty-two Years of Research, Observation and Publication, 1877–1920: a Life Adventure in Breadth and Depth.
By Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. Edited by Florence Milligan. With Complete Bibliography, Chronologic and Classified by Subject, 1877–1929. Pp. xii + 160 + 9 plates. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.) 1.50 dollars.
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R., J. Biology. Nature 128, 625 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128625a0
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