Morgan, Alexander Matheson (Mat) (1867 - 1934)

Summary

Alexander Morgan was a physician who, after qualifying MS BS at the University of Adelaide, practiced in the South Australian towns of Laura and Stone until 1898, and then Adelaide until c.1907. After a period in the United Kingdom as an occulist, he returned to Adelaide where he remained in practice until retiring. Morgan was an enthusiastic ornithologist and played a leading role in the local ornithological societies for many years, including as an early member of the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union, and serving five terms as President of the South Australian Ornithological Association. He was Honorary Ornithologist at the South Australian Institute from 1922. In 1927 he donated to the Institute his collection of avian osteological specimens, with a further donation in 1934 of his oological collection and about 500 bird-skins. Morgan also was a member of the Flora and Fauna Board of South Australia.

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Chronology

1893 - 1897

Career event - In practice at Laura, Flinders Ranges, Soputh Australia

1899

Career position - Founding member, South Australian Ornithological Association

1899 - 1901

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1907 - 1908

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1908

Career event - Training in eye diseases in the United Kingdom

1908 - 1909

Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association

1910 - ?

Career position - Honorary ophthalmic visiting medical officer, Adelaide Children's' Hospital

1910 - 1925

Career position - Charles Gosse Lecturer in Ophthalmology, University of Adelaide

1916 - 1917

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1922 - 1934

Career position - Honorary Ornithologist, South Australian Institute

1925 - 1926

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1927

Career position - Founding Fellow, College of Surgeons of Australasia

1929 - 1934

Career position - Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists Union

1931 - 1932

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Kenny, Patrick (Sir), The founders of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Melbourne, Victoria: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1984), 84 pp, https://www.surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/our-heritage-archives/founders.pdf. Details

Journal Articles

• Chenery, A., 'Obituary for Dr Morgan', South Australian ornithologist, 13 (1935), 3-4. Details
• Chenery, A. and Morgan, A. M., 'The birds of Rivers Murray and Darling and district of Wentworth, part I(-II)', South Australian ornithologist, 5 (1920), 41-7, 69-77. Details
• Hale, Herbert M. and Sutton, John, 'Obituary and bibliography of Dr. A. M. Morgan', Records of the South Australian Museum, 5 (3) (1935), 257-60. Details
• McGilp, J. N. and Morgan, A. M., 'The nesting of the Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus)', South Australian ornithologist, 11 (1931), 37-53. Details
• Morgan, A. M., 'The birds of the South-eastern part of South Australia', South Australian ornithologist, 3 (1919), 7-20. Details
• Morgan, A. M., 'A trip to North-West Australia [part I]-(II)', South Australian ornithologist, 6 (1921), 103-10, 131-3. Details
• Morgan, A. M. and Sutton, J., ' A critical description of some recently discovered bones of the extinct Kangaroo Island Emu (Dromaius diemenianus)', Emu, 28 (1928), 1-19. Details
• Paton, Penny, 'Dr Alexander Matheson (Mat) Morgan (1867 - 1934), part 1', The birder, 264 (2022), i-iv, https://resources.birdssa.au/wp-content/uploads/SUMMER-Birder-2022-for-website.pdf. Details
• Paton, Penny, 'Dr Alexander Matheson (Mat) Morgan (1867 - 1934), part 4', The birder, 267 (2023), i-iv, https://resources.birdssa.au/wp-content/uploads/SPRING-Birder-2023-for-website.pdf. Details
• Paton, Penny, 'Dr Alexander Matheson (Mat) Morgan (1867 - 1934), part 3', The birder, 266 (2023), i-iv, https://resources.birdssa.au/wp-content/uploads/WINTER-Birder-2023-for-web-reduced.pdf. Details
• Paton, Penny, 'Dr Alexander Matheson (Mat) Morgan (1867 - 1934), part 2', The birder, 265 (2023), i-iv, https://resources.birdssa.au/wp-content/uploads/AUTUMN-Birder-2023-for-web-v2.pdf. Details
• White, S. A., 'Obituary: Dr. A.M. Morgan (1867 - 1934)', Emu, 34 (3) (1935), 247-8. Details

Resources

• 'Morgan, A M (1867-1934)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-643615. Details

See also

• McEachern, A. C., 'The founders of the College: South Australia', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 81 (4) (1981), 400-5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb04978.x. Details
• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details