P000107 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000107b.htm person Morton William Lockhart AACR2 19 December 1820 10 March 1898 Place of Birth Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland Place of Death Belair, South Australia, Australia Explorer Inventor 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. 1895 1895 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus bosistoana F. Muell. Morton collected a syntype Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - ) Queensland Herbarium (1855 - ) Philosophical Institute of Victoria (1855 - 1859)

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 Morton, William Lockhart (1820-1898)

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 'Morton, William Lockhart', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Morton, William Lockhart Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Morton, William Lockhart (1820-1898), pastoralist, explorer and inventor Hone, J. Ann Morton, William Lockhart (1820-1898), pastoralist, explorer and inventor Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1974 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q Douglas Pike 302-303 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Journal Article: Records of Victorian Botanists Maiden, J. H. Records of Victorian Botanists 1908 The Victorian naturalist 25 101-117 Book: 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 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

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 Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes