Background
Osgood, Wilfred Hudson was born on December 8, 1875 in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Marion Hudson and Harriet Amanda Osgood.
biologist naturalist Zoologist
Osgood, Wilfred Hudson was born on December 8, 1875 in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Marion Hudson and Harriet Amanda Osgood.
Studied in European museums, 1906, 10, 30.
The family moved to California in 1888 and he went to study in Santa Clara and San Jose. He joined in the activities of the Cooper Ornithological Club and found company in Chester Barlow and Rollo H. Beck. He taught at a school in Arizona for a year and then moved to the newly formed Stanford University where he came to meet Charles H. Gilbert and David Starr Jordan.
He joined the staff of the Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, of the United States Department of Agriculture at the age of 22.
This group later became the Bureau of Biological Survey under Clinton Hart Merriam. In 1909 he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and curator of zoology from 1921 to 1940.
He collected in North America and Chile. He traveled with Louis Agassiz Fuertes to Ethiopia in the 1920s.
He wrote The Mammals of Chile (1943) and co-wrote Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia (1936).
He died a bachelor on 20 June 1947. Osgood, West.H.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ornithologists Union. Club of California; member London Zoöl. Society, British Ornithological Union.
Member American Society Mammalogists (president 1924-1926), Chicago Zoöl.
Society (trustee); Member division biology, National. Clubs: University, Quadrangle (Chicago).