Arthur Earland

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

FRMS (3 November 1866 – 27 March 1958) was a British oceanographer and microscopist. He was an expert on

Foraminifera Foraminifera ( ; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are unicellular organism, single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class (biology), class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell bio ...

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 Lewisham ( ) is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in ...

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. He was one of the several researchers working on the vast materials brought back from the

Challenger expedition The ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the naval vessel that undertook the trip, . The expedition, initiated by W ...

. In June 1933 his research from Vol VII of the

Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, ...

was published. In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

. His proposers were D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, William T. H. Williamson,

Robert James Douglas Graham Robert James Douglas Graham FRSE (1884–1950) was a Scottish botanist. Life He was born on 20 July 1884 in Perth, the son of Dr John Thomas Graham. His family lived at 4 Athole Crescent in Perth. He was educated at Perth Academy then attended ...

and James Ritchie. He died on 27 March 1958.

Publications

Mainly co-written with Edward Heron-Allen *''

'' (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)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Earland, Arthur 1866 births 1958 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People from Lewisham English non-fiction writers British oceanographers

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