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William Elgin Swinton

William Elgin Swinton est un paléontologue et zoologue anglais né le à Kirkcaldy en Écosse et mort le à Toronto. Il a été membre de la Société royale du Canada.

Il commence à travailler pour le Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Londres à partir de 1924 et obtient son doctorat à l'Université de Glasgow en 1931. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il sert dans les services secrets de la Royal Navy.

Il enseigne ensuite à l'Université de Toronto à partir des années 1960 en continuant occasionnellement à collaborer avec le muséum de Londres où pour lequel il est spécialiste des dinosaures. Il a également collaboré avec le Musée royal de l'Ontario et le Ontario Science Centre.

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  • "The Dinosaurs" de 1934
  • A Guide to the Fossil Birds (1934)
  • The Science of Living Things (1935)
  • 1948 A Cretaceous pterosaur from the Belgian Congo. Bulletin de la Societe Geologie, Paleontologie et Hydrologie. Liège 77, 234–238.
  • The Corridor of Life (1948)
  • 1954 Flight 170 million years ago. Discovery 15, 226–228.
  • Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles 1954; sixième édition en 1974 978-0565005436
  • "The origin of Birds," in Biology and Comparative Physiology of Birds (London: Academic, 1960),1.

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