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100	1		_aOsborn, Henry Fairfield, _d1857-1935
245	1	0	_aImpressions of great naturalists
250			_a[First edition]
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-01-05
505	0		_aAutobiographical foreword -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Charles Darwin -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Francis Maitland Balfour -- James Byrce -- Louis Pasteur -- Joseph Leidy -- Edward Drinker Cope -- Theodore Roosevelt -- The two Johns: John Burroughs, John Muir -- Howard Crosby Butler.
508			_aRichard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Impressions of great naturalists" by Henry Fairfield Osborn is a collection of biographical sketches and reminiscences written in the early 20th century. The volume offers reflective, character-driven portraits of major figures in evolution and natural history, blending Osborn’s personal encounters with concise intellectual histories to inspire and guide aspiring naturalists. The opening of the work begins with an autobiographic foreword in which Osborn praises self-effacing, creative naturalists and recounts the influences that shaped him—Victorian scientists and poets, rigorous teachers at Princeton and in Europe, formative study under Balfour and Huxley, and a brief, vivid meeting with Darwin. He contrasts quiet, single-purposed creators (Darwin, Wallace, Pasteur) with combative public champions (Huxley, Cope), and even parallels powerful contemporaries like J. P. Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt, stressing courage, humility, and public service. It then turns to the first profile, Alfred Russel Wallace, tracing his modest origins, self-education, tropical fieldwork, independent grasp of natural selection (sparked by Malthus), magnanimous joint publication with Darwin, and lasting contributions to mimicry, warning coloration, and zoogeography, alongside his later views on human evolution and social reform. The narrative next opens the Darwin section with an address pairing Darwin and Lincoln, arguing that Darwin’s greatest gift was freeing scientific inquiry from theological constraint, and briskly sketching his Cambridge formation, the Beagle voyage and Lyell’s influence, the long maturation of natural selection, the Wallace episode, and Osborn’s own brief personal impression of Darwin. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924
653			_aNaturalists
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/b29977447
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77622
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