Wilfred Hudson Osgood

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Wilfred Hudson Osgood (December 8, 1875 – June 20, 1947) was an American zoologist.

Osgood was working as a biologist in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1897 to 1909. Then 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 travelled with Louis Agassiz Fuertes to Ethiopia in the 1920s. He wrote The Mammals of Chile (1923) and co-wrote Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia (1936).