Barnum Brown
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Barnum Brown, commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. He discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil
Brown in 1897
Brown (left) with Henry Fairfield Osborn and the leg bone of Diplodocus specimen AMNH 223
The AMNH scow Mary Jane in 1911. Left to right: Henry Osborn; Fred Saunders (cook from Stettler, Alberta) and Brown
Barnum Brown conducting field work in a fur coat in Montana, 1914.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for
Barnum Brown
…on an expedition to the Morrison Formation in Wyoming. Brown impressed Wortman and the head curator of the AMNH's Vertebrate Paleontology Department, Henry Fairfield Osborn, with the discovery of a nearly complete Coryphodon skeleton near the Greybull River. In early 1897, Osborn offered Brown a job as an assistant curator…
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn
His country home, Castle Rock in Garrison, New York, 2009.
Osborn and his wife Lucretia