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1928-1940 (Creation)
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- Oughton, John George
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18 cm of textual records
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John (Jack) George Oughton was born in Seaforth Ontario in 1909. Jack attended the University of Toronto and was an assistant in Biology from 1934 to 1935. He was appointed to the Mollusc Division of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology in 1934 and became an associate in Zoology in 1936. He earned a PhD in zoology in 1948, his thesis being a study of the land snails of Ontario.
He married Phyllis Mary Smalley and the couple had five children: Elizabeth, Rosemary, Richard, Cathy, and John.
He taught at the Ontario Agricultural College and retired from the University of Guelph in 1969. Following retirement he moved to New Brunswick where he lived until his death in 1993.
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Dr. Oughton's diaries were donated to the Royal Ontario Museum by his daughter Elizabeth (Libby) Oughton in 2012.
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Fonds consists of 10 notebooks which capture Jack Oughton’s personal and professional life during his time as a student at the Univeristy of Toronto and his days as an employee at the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology. The diaries describe his daily life along with observations about nature (birds, insects, plants) around Southern Ontario. Oughton’s diaries document his work with J. R. Dymond at the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and his participation with the Brodie Club and other naturalist clubs. A number of diaries document trips made to the Arctic, Baffin Island, Lake Nipissing, the Bay of Quinte and Trent Valley.
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Diaries are maintained in the order in which they were received.
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A finding aid is available at the Royal Ontario Museum's main library.
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Description created October 9, 2014