User:Morton1945

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.).

Favourite words: schadenfreude; obfuscation.

Previous usernemes: "Osborne"; Gigartina, Phycodrys1945.

Articles I have started include:- C.Douglas Deane; Belfast Naturalists' Field Club; Elmwood Hall; Eifion Jones; Ceramium; Ceramium botryocarpum; Ceramium ciliatum; Delesseria sanguinea'; Fucus spiralis; Gastroclonium ovatum; Plocamium cartilagineum; Catenella caespitosa; Odonthalia dentata; Bryopsis plumosa; Lithophyllum incrustans;Phymatolithon lenormandii; Ulothrix aequalis; Lithothamnion glaciale;St John's Church Malone; Ulothrix flacca; Ulothrix speciosa; Ulothrix aequalis;