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Arthur Deane

1875 – 1954

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Lived 1875 – 1954 (aged 78–79). Arthur Deane was a photographer and botanist.

Arthur Deane FRSE MRIA (1875 – 1954) was a Scottish botanist and photographer. He was the first director of botany at the Ulster Museum. He specialised in trees and in photo-micrographs of cell samples.

Life He was born in Glasgow on 6 June 1875.

From 1901 to 1905, he was the assistant curator of Warrington Museum. 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 Indian subcontinent. 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 John Arthur Thomson, John Symington, Sir John James Burnet and William Evans Hoyle. From 1947 to 1950, he was president of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.

He died in Ballycarry in Northern Ireland on 12 January 1954.

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Born
1875
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Died
1954
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Who was Arthur Deane?

botanist (1875-1954)

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Arthur Deane was born in 1875.

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Arthur Deane died in 1954.

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Arthur Deane was a photographer and botanist.

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· Wikipedia: Arthur Deane

· Wikidata: Q23584832

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