Arthur Earland
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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
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.Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1957 He was one of the several researchers working on the vast materials brought back from the Challenger expedition.Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1944
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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=1 April 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
He died on 27 March 1958.
Publications
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
- Earlandia, a genus of prehistoric foraminifera
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