Erwin Hinckly Barbour

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Erwin Hinckly Barbour
Born	1856 Oxford, Ohio
Died	1947
Fields	Geology Paleontology
Institutions	United States Geological Survey University of Nebraska

Erwin Hinckly Barbour, Ph. D (1856 – 1947) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

He was born near Oxford, Ohio, and was educated at Miami University and at Yale, where he graduated in 1882. He was assistant paleontologist to the United States Geological Survey from 1882 to 1888. He was employed in various places thereafter, including professor of geology in the University of Nebraska.

Barbour became director of the University of Nebraska State Museum and founded its vertebrate paleontology collections in 1891. He remained the director until 1941.^[1]

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