Terence M. Shortt was a Canadian artist who worked most of his life for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He made more than 30 expeditions worldwide in connection with the preparation of natural history exhibitions for the museum. The field notebooks, all disbound, are filled with his illustrations; the collection also includes sketches, finished drawings, and Christmas cards.

Given to the Academy by the artist in 1983-1984; archived in 1987