Walter Deane

{{Short description|American botanist (1848–1930)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|4|23}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts

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| resting_place = Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Walter Deane (April 23, 1848 – July 30, 1930) was an American amateur botanist and ornithologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1870. He was a founding member of the New England Botanical Club and served as its president from 1908 to 1911.{{cite journal|last= Weatherby|first=C.A.|title=Walter Deane|year=1933|journal=Rhodora|volume=35|issue=411|pages= 69–80|jstor=23300675}}{{cite journal|author=Anonymous|year= 1931| title=[Death notice of Walter Deane]|journal=American Fern Journal|volume=20|issue=4|pages=158–159|jstor=1544764}} From 1897 to 1907 he was curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum, and prepared Brewster's Birds of the Cambridge Region. Deane is commemorated in the plant genus Deanea Coulter & Rose. {{botanist|W.Deane|inline=yes}}