Biographical entry Deane, Henry (1847 - 1924)

Summary

Deane was Engineer in Chief, New South Wales Railways 1890-1906 and Engineer in Chief of the Commonwealth Railways Construction Branch 1912-1914.

He was also active in botanical, palaeontological and meteorological research.

Deane made many valuable observations on eucalypts, quoted in Joseph Maiden's Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. Deane's botanical papers were published mostly in the Journal of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

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Events

1880

Life event - Arrived in Australia

1880 - 1914

Career position - Worked for the New South Wales Railway Construction Department, rising to the position of Engineer-in-Chief

1883 - c. 1914

Career position - Member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

1885 - 1924

Career position - Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales

1887 - 1912

Career position - Member of the council of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

1895

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus propinqua Deane & Maiden (1895)

1896

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus fastigata Deane & Maiden (1919), co-collected with Deane

1896 - 1897

Career position - President of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

1897 - 1907

Career position - President of the Royal Society of New South Wales

1898

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus fraxinoides, co-collected with Deane

1899

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus nova-anglica Deane & Maiden (1899)

1899

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus aggregata Deane & Maiden (1899)

1904

Taxonomy event - J.H. Maiden named Eucalyptus deanei Maiden (1904) in Deane's honour

1914 - c. 1924

Career position - Practiced as a consulting engineer in Melbourne

1919

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus approximans Maiden (1919), co-collected with Deane

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Henry Deane - Records, 1847 - 1933, MS 610; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details

Books

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts : short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details
• Maiden, J.H., A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Sydney, 1909. Details
• Wrigley, J.; & Fagg, M., Eucalypts: A Celebration, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest Australia, 2010, 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Walker, J. D., 'Deane, Henry (1847-1924)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 259-260. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080279b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'The grey gum of the North Coast Districts (Eucalyptus propinqua, n.sp.)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 20, 1895, pp. 541-543. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 1', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 20, 1895, pp. 596-611. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 2', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 21, 1896, pp. 798-813. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'On a new species of Eucalyptus from the Sydney District', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 22, 1897, pp. 552-553?. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 3', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 22, 1897, pp. 704-720. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'On the White Ash of Southern New South Wales', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 23, 1898, pp. 412-413. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 4', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 23, 1898, pp. 780-801. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 6', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 24, 1899, pp. 612-630. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 5', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 24, 1899, pp. 448-471. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 7', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 25, 1900, pp. 104-113. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Further notes on supposed hybridisation amongsth Eucalypts including a description of new species', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 26, 1901, pp. 339-343. Details
• Deane, H. and Maiden, J.H., 'Observations on the Eucalypts of New South Wales, Part 8', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 26, 1901, pp. 122-144. Details

Online Resources

• Fagg, Murray, Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/bot-biog/index.html. Details
• 'Deane, Henry', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-614153. Details
• Newell, Jennifer and Sutherland, Denise, 'Scientists and Colonists', Australasian Science, vol. Summer, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_colonists.htm. Details