Arthur Earland
Arthur Earland FRSE FRMS (3 November 1866 – 27 March 1958) was a British oceanographer and microscopist. He was an expert on Foraminifera and gives his name to Earlandite. He was skilled in the identification of microscopic shells in a manner indicative of likely oil-bearing capacity.
Life
[edit]He was born on 3 November 1866 in Lewisham in London the son of a schoolmaster. In 1885 he joined the Civil Service working in the British Post Office on procedures. He is remembered however for his important microscope studies, partly undertaken with Edward Heron-Allen.[1] He was one of the several researchers working on the vast materials brought back from the Challenger expedition.[2]
In June 1933 his research from Vol VII of the Discovery Investigations was published. In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, William T. H. Williamson, Robert James Douglas Graham and James Ritchie.[3]
He died on 27 March 1958.
Publications
[edit]Mainly co-written with Edward Heron-Allen
- Foraminifera (1922)
- The British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910 (1922)
- Foraminifera of the Kerimba Archipelago (1914)
- The Foraminifea of the Shore Sand of Bognor, Sussex (1905)
- The Foraminifera of Clare Island District, County Mayo (1913)
See also
[edit]- Earlandia, a genus of prehistoric foraminifera
References
[edit]- ^ Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1957
- ^ Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1944
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
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