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IN his special study of Tertiary palæobotany, Henry Deane was pre-eminent amongst the more recent scientific workers in Australia, and his loss is felt by botanists and geologists alike. His love for natural history was inherited from his father, who had made friendships with men such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Dr. Harvey, Henry and Edwin Doubleday; the son interested himself in both entomology and botany. It was in the latter science that he specialised in his spare time during a busy life in the engineering profession; and his published papers on the Tertiary flora of Australia testify to his caution and painstaking verification of evidence as to the exact relationship of the abundant leaf remains found in the terrestrial and lacustrine deposits of south-eastern Australia.
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C., F. Mr. Henry Deane. Nature 113, 865 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113865a0
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