This user was, until July 2007, a curator in Botany in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His main interest was in the algae, however he was also interested in lichens and birds. He intended to read the Tutorial some time! but it is a long job!
Why study algae? "To be useless, various and abstruse is a sufficient recommendation of a science to make it pleasing to me." (- Harvey, W.H. in reference to algology as noted in Fisher, L. 1869. Memoir of W.H.Harvey.).
Favorite words: schadenfreude; obfuscation.
It has been said that I am a "hyperpedant".
Osborne 10:35, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 | This user lives in the United Kingdom. |
Change of username (due to Windows 10) now: Phycodrys.
Publications:-
Morton, O. 1974. Marine algae of Sandeel Bay, Co. Down. Ir. Nat. J. 18: 32 - 35.
Morton, O. 1976. Marine Algae in Copeland Bird Observatory Report.
Guiry, M.D. and Morton, O. 1976. Schottera nicaeensis (Lamour. ex Duby) Guiry et Hollenberg from Co. Antrim. Ir. Nat. J. 18: 285 - 286.
Morton, O. 1977. A note on W.H.Harvey's algae in the Ulster Museum. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 26.
Morton, O. 1977. Sylvanus Wear's algal collection in the Ulster Museum. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 92 - 93.
Morton, O. 1978. Lemanea in the north of Ireland. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 205.
Morton, O. 1978. Some interesting records of algae from Ireland. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 240 - 242.
McMillan, N.F. and Morton, O. 1979. A Victorian album of algae from the north of Ireland with specimens collected by William Sawers. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 384 - 387.
Morton, O. 1980. Three algal collections in the Ulster Museum herbarium. Ir. Nat. J. 20: 33 - 37.
Morton, O. 1981. American algae collected by W.H.Harvey and others, in the Ulster Museum Herbarium. Taxon 30: 867 - 868.
Guiry, M.D., Irvine, L.M. and Morton, O. 1981. Notes on Irish marine algae - 4. Gymnogongrus devoniensis (Greville) Schotter (Rhodophyta). Ir. Nat. J. 20: 288 - 292.
Morton, O. and Chamberlain, Y.M. 1985. Records of some epiphytic coralline algae in north-east of Ireland. Ir. Nat. J. 21: 436 - 440.
Morton, O. 1988. Lichens on Lighthouse Island. Copeland Bird Observatory Annual Report for 1986.p.44.
Morton, O. and Chamberlain, Y.M. 1989. Further records of encrusting coralline algae on the north-east coast of Ireland. Ir. Nat. J. 23: 102 - 106.
Morton, O. 1992 Charophyta. In: Hackney, P. (ed) Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast. 419 pp.
Morton, O. 1994. Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Ulster Museum, Belfast. ISBN 0 900761 28 8
Morton, O. 2003. The marine macroalgae of Co. Donegal, Ireland. Bull. Ir. biogeog. Soc. No. 27: 3 - 164
Time is passing. As the Ulster Museum is now closed to the public and I have been moved, with others, to temporary buildings in Cultra, Co.Down, Northern Ireland,there is little need of me! I therefore retired on the 4th July 2007 (something else happened on the 4th July - what was it?). Thanks and best wishes to all who have helped me add to Wikipedia. By-by 16.05 Osborne 15:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Articles created or worked on:-
Aegopodium podagaria Ground elder
Alexanders is a cultivated flowering plant, Smyrnium olusatrum L.
Ascophyllum nodosum (redirected from)Knotted wrack
Belfast Naturalists' Field Club
Brongniartella byssoides (Vertebrata byssoides)
Chondrus crispus (redirected from) Irish Moss
Gastroclonium reflexum
Lactuca muralis (wall lettuce), or Mycelis muralis,
Macrocystis stellatus
Palmaria palmata redirected to Dulse
Polysiphonia foetidissima synonymous Vertebrata byssoides
Polysiphonia fucoides = Vertebrata fucoides
(Polysiphonia harveyi) = ''Melanothamnus harveyi''- Mooved as requested 10th Aug 2017.
Receptacle - Article opened by self.
Saccorhiza polyschides updated 29.07.2008 - more work reequired.
Spermothamnion repens
Tory Island "Tussilago farfara"
Ulva lactuca - updated: 29.07.2008.
And more and more - too much!
