Record

Code	PX39
Dates	1900-1994
Person Name	Swinton; William Elgin (1900-1994); Professor; Palaeontologist
Surname	Swinton
Forenames	William Elgin
Title	Professor
Epithet	Palaeontologist
Activity	Museum 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.
Source	See DF5012/15 for autobiography

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/PUB/516/4/25	Dinosaurs
DF/PH/1/5/2/9	Behind the scenes at the Museum: New Spirit Building
DF/ADM/1005/72	Swinton, William E
DF/PH/1/5/2/8	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Wood-working machine shop
DF/PUB/516/4/21	Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles
DF/PAL/121/1	Swinton, W: correspondence
DF/PH/1/5/2/11	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Old spirit building
DF/PH/1/5/2/4	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Main Museum buildings from the back
DF/PH/1/5/2/20	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department preparators shop
DF/PAL/109/8	'Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles' by W E Swinton: artwork by M Wilson, proofs and memoranda
DF/PH/1/5/2/27	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Botanical Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/18	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Locust breeding in west tower
DF/PH/1/5/2/28	Behind the scenes at the Museum: General Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/22	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, 'workroom'
DF/PH/1/5/2/1	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Printing room
DF/PUB/516/4/23	Fossil Birds
DF/PH/1/5/2/21	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, Assistant Keeper's study
DF/PH/7/8/1/3	Swinton, W E - lectures to children in the geology department
DF/PH/1/5/2/26	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Cryptogamic laboratory
DF/ZOO/230/122/217	Canada: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
DF/PH/1/5/2/29	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Department of Mineralogy, lapidary workshop
DF/PH/1/5/2/6	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Hand-crane for heavy items
DF/PH/1/5/2/10	Behind the scenes at the Museum: New Whale Building
DF/PUB/516/4/24	Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles
DF/PH/1/5/2/13	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Entomological study in the new spirit building
DF/PH/1/5/2/5	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Northeast corner
DF/PH/7/8/1/2	Swinton, W E - lectures to children in geology department
DF/PAL/109/10	'Fossil Birds' by W E Swinton: photographs, proofs, artwork and memoranda
DF/PH/1/5/2/16	Behind the scenes at the Museum: One of the insect setting rooms
DF/PH/2/1/6/29	Staff Photograph: W E Swinton
DF/PAL/109/9	'Dinosaurs' by W E Swinton: artwork, letters and memoranda
DF/ZOO/232/5/13/16/1	Rowland Ward Ltd
DF/ZOO/232/5/21/10/18	Swinton, W.E.
DF/PAL/121/2	Swinton, William Elgin: 'Time and Chance': reminiscences of the Department of Geology, 1924-1961
DF/PH/1/5/2/17	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Store and work-room in new spirit building
DF/PH/1/5/2/3	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Telephone exchange
DF/PH/1/5/2	Behind the scenes at the Museum: illustrations for W E Swinton's papers in Natural History Magazine IV
DF/PH/1/5/2/24	Behind the scenes at the Museum: General Herbarium
DF/PH/7/8/1/1	Swinton, W E - lectures to children in geology department
DF/PH/1/5/2/7	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Trap and hoist in Central Hall
DF/PH/1/5/2/23	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Library
DF/PH/1/5/2/2	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Photographic studio
DF/PH/2/1/6/48	Staff Photograph: William Elgin Swinton
DF/PH/2/5/1/6	Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PH/2/5/1/1	Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PH/1/5/2/19	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, preparators shop
DF/PH/1/5/2/12	Behind the scenes at the Museum: The official guide lecturer, Mona Edwards, in the exhibition of Game Animals of the Empire
DF/PAL/121	Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers
DF/ENT/332/1/59	Straelen, 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/TRU/906/3	Minutes of meetings of the Principal Trustees, with nomination and other papers
DF/PH/2/1/4/4	Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)
DF/PH/1/5/2/25	Behind the scenes at the Museum: Plant-mounting room
DF/PAL/129/2/5	Correspondence with Harold St George Gray
DF/PH/2/5/1/4	Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff

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