Arthur Deane FRSE MRIA (1875 – 1954) was a Scottish botanist and photographer. He was the first director of botany at the

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. He specialised in trees and in photo-micrographs of cell samples.

Life

He was born in

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on 6 June 1875. From 1901 to 1905, he was the assistant curator of

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. In 1905, he moved to be director of the Belfast Museum in Ireland (later renamed as the Ulster Museum). He made an extensive study of trees, including multiple cell studies in the form of photo-micrographs including a large number of species from the

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. During his time at Warrington, he provided 186 micrographs to Herbert Stone's book, ''The Timbers of Commerce and Their Identification''. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1923. His proposers were Sir

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, John Symington, Sir

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and

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. From 1947 to 1950, he was president of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. He died in

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in Northern Ireland on 12 January 1954.

References

1875 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Scottish botanists Photographers from Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scientists from Glasgow Scottish curators British dendrologists Microscopists {{Scotland-botanist-stub