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

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

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)

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