Record

CodePX39
Dates1900-1994
Person NameSwinton; William Elgin (1900-1994); Professor; Palaeontologist
SurnameSwinton
ForenamesWilliam Elgin
TitleProfessor
EpithetPalaeontologist
ActivityMuseum staff: appointed Assistant in Geology Department, 1924; 1st class Assistant Keeper 1933; resigned 1961 and moved to Toronto.
Fossil vertebrates, esp dinosaurs.
PhD Univeristy of Glasgow 1931.
Honorary secretary of the NHM Staff Association until 1936.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
By 1994 Emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, where he taught in the 1960's. At the time, he also served as director of life sciences at the Royal Ontario Museum. He also helped to set up the Ontario Science Center.
Visiting Professor, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario,1977 & 1978.
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DF/PH/1/5/2/23Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/2Behind the scenes at the Museum: Photographic studio
DF/PH/1/5/2/9Behind the scenes at the Museum: New Spirit Building
DF/PH/1/5/2/6Behind the scenes at the Museum: Hand-crane for heavy items
DF/ADM/1005/72Swinton, William E
DF/PH/1/5/2/8Behind the scenes at the Museum: Wood-working machine shop
DF/PH/1/5/2/21Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, Assistant Keeper's study
DF/PH/1/5/2/4Behind the scenes at the Museum: Main Museum buildings from the back
DF/PUB/516/4/25Dinosaurs
DF/PH/1/5/2/5Behind the scenes at the Museum: Northeast corner
DF/PAL/121/1Swinton, W: correspondence
DF/PUB/516/4/23Fossil Birds
DF/PUB/516/4/21Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles
DF/PAL/109/8'Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles' by W E Swinton: artwork by M Wilson, proofs and memoranda
DF/PH/1/5/2/20Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department preparators shop
DF/PH/1/5/2/10Behind the scenes at the Museum: New Whale Building
DF/PH/1/5/2/1Behind the scenes at the Museum: Printing room
DF/PH/1/5/2/22Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, 'workroom'
DF/PH/1/5/2/11Behind the scenes at the Museum: Old spirit building
DF/ENT/332/1/59Straelen, V van; Strouhal, Dr H; Sturgess, M; Suffolk Naturalists' Society; Sunday Times; Society of Sussex Downsmen; Sutton, S D B; Sutton, S; Sutton; Swain, H D; Swinton, Dr W E; Szabo, Dr R
DF/PH/1/5/2/29Behind the scenes at the Museum: Department of Mineralogy, lapidary workshop
DF/PH/1/5/2/24Behind the scenes at the Museum: General Herbarium
DF/PAL/109/10'Fossil Birds' by W E Swinton: photographs, proofs, artwork and memoranda
DF/PAL/109/9'Dinosaurs' by W E Swinton: artwork, letters and memoranda
DF/PH/1/5/2/26Behind the scenes at the Museum: Cryptogamic laboratory
DF/PH/2/1/6/48Staff Photograph: William Elgin Swinton
DF/PH/2/1/6/29Staff Photograph: W E Swinton
DF/PH/1/5/2/3Behind the scenes at the Museum: Telephone exchange
DF/ZOO/232/5/13/16/1Rowland Ward Ltd
DF/PAL/121Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers
DF/PUB/516/4/24Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles
DF/PAL/121/2Swinton, William Elgin: 'Time and Chance': reminiscences of the Department of Geology, 1924-1961
DF/ZOO/232/5/21/10/18Swinton, W.E.
DF/ZOO/230/122/217Canada: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
DF/PH/7/8/1/1Swinton, W E - lectures to children in geology department
DF/PH/1/5/2Behind the scenes at the Museum: illustrations for W E Swinton's papers in Natural History Magazine IV
DF/PH/1/5/2/13Behind the scenes at the Museum: Entomological study in the new spirit building
DF/PH/1/5/2/7Behind the scenes at the Museum: Trap and hoist in Central Hall
DF/PH/1/5/2/17Behind the scenes at the Museum: Store and work-room in new spirit building
DF/PH/2/5/1/6Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PH/2/1/4/4Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)
DF/PH/2/5/1/4Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/TRU/906/3Minutes of meetings of the Principal Trustees, with nomination and other papers
DF/PH/7/8/1/2Swinton, W E - lectures to children in geology department
DF/PH/7/8/1/3Swinton, W E - lectures to children in the geology department
DF/PH/1/5/2/19Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, preparators shop
DF/PH/2/5/1/1Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PH/1/5/2/18Behind the scenes at the Museum: Locust breeding in west tower
DF/PH/1/5/2/28Behind the scenes at the Museum: General Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/27Behind the scenes at the Museum: Botanical Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/25Behind the scenes at the Museum: Plant-mounting room
DF/PH/1/5/2/16Behind the scenes at the Museum: One of the insect setting rooms
DF/PH/1/5/2/12Behind the scenes at the Museum: The official guide lecturer, Mona Edwards, in the exhibition of Game Animals of the Empire
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