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)

See also
  • Earlandia, a genus of prehistoric foraminifera

References
  1. Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1957
  2. Journal of Microscopy, Sept-Dec 1944
  3. 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.
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