Person

Morgan, Alexander Matheson (1867 - 1934)

Born
11 February 1867
Mitcham, South Australia, Australia
Died
18 October 1934
Occupation
Physician and Ornithologist

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

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 - 1909
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
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

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  • 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

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