11 September 1854 New Orleans, d. 27 May 1907, Sandy Bay, Tasmania) was an American-born Australian naturalist and museum curator.
[1] In 1877 Morton took a position as a curator's assistant at the Australian Museum in Sydney and he joined the explorer Andrew Goldie on his expedition to New Guinea.
Morton's specimenss, mostly of birds collected in them forests in the vicinity of Port Moresby and from Yule Island, confirmed his abilities as a naturalist and the Museum sent him to Palmerston, now Darwin.
He became the director of the museum and botanical gardens in January 1904 and was the secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania from 1887 until his death.
He also helped to establish the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania and was an honorary curator of that institution from 1891 up to 1896.