Arthur Deane
Arthur Deane FRSE MRIA (1875 – 1954) was a Scottish botanist and photographer. He was first Director of Botany at the Ulster Museum.[1] He specialised in trees and in photo-micrographs of cell samples.[2]
Life[]
He was born in Glasgow on 6 June 1875.
From 1901 to 1905 he was Assistant Curator of Warrington Museum. In 1905 he moved to be Director of the Belfast Museum in Ireland (later renamed as the Ulster Museum).
He made an extensive study of trees, including multiple cell studies in the form of photo-micrographs including a large number of species from the Indian subcontinent. During his time at Warrington, he provided 186 micrographs to Herbert Stone's book, The Timbers of Commerce and Their Identification.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1923. His proposers were Sir John Arthur Thomson, John Symington, Sir John James Burnet and William Evans Hoyle. From 1947 to 1950 he was President of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.[4]
He died in Ballycarry in Northern Ireland on 12 January 1954.
References[]
- ^ "National Museums NI". Nmni.com. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ The Timbers of Commerce and Their Identification, Stone Herbert (ebook)
- ^ Stone, Herbert (1905). The Timbers of Commerce and their Identification. London: William Rider & Son, Limited. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ [1][dead link]
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