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.
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.
Mainly co-written with Edward Heron-Allen