Person

Morton, William Lockhart (1820 - 1898)

Born
19 December 1820
Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland
Died
10 March 1898
Belair, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Explorer and Inventor

Summary

William Morton was an inventor, explorer and botanical collector. He collected in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland between approximately 1859 and 1880. The last of his specimens were received by the Queensland Herbarium in 1885, but he also sent specimens to the Melbourne Herbarium and several are cited by Mueller and Bentham in their writings. Morton was an early member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria and later the Royal Society of Victoria. As an inventor, his most enduring contributions were the sheep-dip and the swing-gate.

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Chronology

1895
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus bosistoana F. Muell. Morton collected a syntype

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • Hone, J. Ann, 'Morton, William Lockhart (1820-1898), pastoralist, explorer and inventor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 302-303. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050347b.htm. Details

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See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_m.html. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', The Victorian naturalist, 25 (1908), 101-117. Details

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