Osborn, Henry Fairfield

16 publications

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1902a

A remarkable new mammal from Japan. Its relationship to the Californian genus Desmostylus, Marsh.
Science 16(409): 713-714. Oct. 31, 1902.
—Discusses the similarities between the Japanese and American Desmostylus, and lists some American specimens. In Yoshiwara & Iwasaki (1902), Osborn considered the Japanese specimen a proboscidean; he now concedes that Desmostylus may be either a proboscidean or a sirenian.

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1902b	Eocene sirenians in Egypt. Science 16(409): 715. Oct. 31, 1902. —Notice of C.W. Andrews (1902). Briefly discusses Eosiren.

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1902c	The law of adaptive radiation. Amer. Naturalist 36: 353-363. 4 figs. —Abstrs.: Geol. Zentralbl. 9: 659?; Jahresber. Anat. Entwickl. (n.s.) 8(3): 85? Sirs., 356, fig. 1.

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1905a	Ten years' progress in the mammalian palaeontology of North America. Verh. (= C.R.) 6. Internatl. Zool.-Kongr. (Bern, 1904): 86-113. 7 figs. 15 pls. —?Repr.: Amer. Geol. 36: 199-229. 7 figs. Pl. 12. Sirs., 109 (223 in Amer. Geol.).

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1905b	The present problems of paleontology. Pop. Sci. Monthly 66: 226-242. Jan. 1905. —Mentions primitive sirs. found in Africa (242).

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1906	Recent vertebrate paleontology. Science (n.s.) 24: 55-57. —

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1907a

Evolution of mammalian molar teeth to and from the triangular type, including collected and revised researches on trituberculy and new sections on the forms and homologies of the molar teeth in the different orders of mammals.
New York & London, Macmillan: ix + 250. 215 figs.
—Abstrs.: Science (n.s.) 27: 341-342?; Anat. Rec. 2: 221-225?; Amer. Jour. Sci. (4)25: 264?; Jahresber. Anat. Entwickl. (n.s.) 14(3): 161. Sirs., 15, 88-89, 188.

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1907b	Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm Desert. Century Mag. 74(= n.s. 52): 815-835. 20 figs. —Abstrs.: Geol. Zentralbl. 11: 28?; Sci. Prog. 2: 503?

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1909	The feeding habits of Moeritherium and Palaeomastodon. Nature (London) 81(2074): 139-140. 2 figs. —

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1910	The age of mammals in Europe, Asia, and North America. New York, Macmillan Co.: xvii + 635. 220 figs. —Revs.: Amer. Jour. Sci. (4)31: 150-151?; Nat. Hist. 11: 65-67, 1911?; Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. New York 43: 541?; Geol. Zentralbl. 19: 393?; Nature (London) 88: 135-136? Sirs., 631.

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1917	The origin and evolution of life. On the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy. New York: xxxi + 322. 136 figs. —Extracts: Sci. Monthly 3: 5-22, 170-190, 289-307, 313-334, 502-513, 601-614, 1916? Abstr.: Amer. Jour. Sci. (4)45: 77? Revs.: Nat. Hist. 18: 193-199?; Science (n.s.) 48: 472-474, 1918?; Jour. Geol. 26: 283-285?; Nature (London) 103: 201? Sirs., 269-270.

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1918	Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of North America; iconographic type revision. Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. (n.s.) 2: 1-330. 173 figs. 44 pls. —Desmostylians, 23.

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1922	Migrations and affinities of the fossil proboscideans of North and South America and Africa. Amer. Naturalist 56: 448-455. —Desmostylians, 450.

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1925	Final conclusions on the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the Proboscidea. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 64: 17-35. 3 figs. —Sirs., 18.

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1936	Proboscidea, a monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world. Vol. 1. New York, Amer. Mus. Press: xl + 802. Frontisp. 680 figs. 12 pls. —

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1942	Proboscidea, a monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world. Vol. 2. New York, Amer. Mus. Press: xxvii + 805-1675. Frontisp. Figs. 683-1244. Pls. 13-30. —Sirs., 625, 1382, etc.