Fairfield Osborn papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3400
Subjects: Correspondence; Soil conservation; Natural resources; Forests and forestry; Public health; Population policy
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, book reviews, notes, clippings, printed matter,and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to forestry, natural resources, population control, public health, and soil conservation.  The scrapbooks contain news clippings dealing primarily with Osborn's book, Our Plundered Planet (1948).  Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Harold L. Ickes, Charles A. Lindbergh, John V. Lindsay, Walter Lippmann, Marianne Moore, Lewis Mumford, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai E. Stevenson, Leopold Stokowski, Norman Thomas, and Harry S. Truman.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Fairfield Osborn, 1969.

Zoologist and conservationist.

Collection material in English.

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