Deane, Henry (1847 - 1924)

Summary

Henry Deane MInstCE, 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 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

Details

Deane described numerous species of Eucalyptus, often in association with Henry Maiden, and collected type specimens. These include:
1896 Eucalyptus propinqua H.Deane & Maiden
1897 Eucalyptus fastigata H.Deane & Maiden
1898 Eucalyptus fraxinoides H.Deane & Maiden
1898 Eucalyptus squamosa H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus rubida H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus goniocalyx var. nitens H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus nova-anglica H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus aggregata H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus acaciiformis H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus macarthurii H.Deane & Maiden
1899 Eucalyptus quadrangulata H.Deane & Maiden
1900 Eucalyptus conica H.Deane & Maiden
1901 Eucalyptus x boormanii H.Deane & Maiden
1901 Eucalyptus haemastoma var. x montana H.Deane & Maiden
1919 Eucalyptus approximans Maiden. Deane collected the type.

Species named in Deane's honour include:
1904 Eucalyptus deanei Maiden named in Deane's honour.

Chronology

1865

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), Queen's College, Galway, Ireland

1867 - 1869

Career position - Pupillage, under T Marr Johnson in the office of Sir John Fowler [Metropolitan Railways, London]

1869 - 1871

Career position - Assistant engineer, Messrs Waring Brothers [Contractors, East Hungarian Railways]

1871 - 1874

Career position - Assistant Manager, Danube Steam Navigation Company, Altofen near Buda-Pesth

5 May 1874

Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1875 - 1876

Career position - Engineer, under Benjamin Baker, London

1877 - c. 1878

Career position - Engineer, Manila, Philippines [Erection of Sugar works and plant, that he had designed]

1880

Education - Master of Arts (MA), King's College, London

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 event - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales

1885 - 1924

Career event - Member, Royal Society of New South Wales

11 May 1886

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1887 - 1912

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

1888 -

Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1888

Career position - Secretary, Section J (Architecture and Engineering), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

c. 1891

Education - Master of Arts (MA), ad eundem, University of Sydney

1895 - 1897

Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales

1897 - 1907

Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales

1900

Career position - Secretary, Section H ( Engineering and Architecture), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1904

Career event - President, Section H (Architecture, Engineering and Mining), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1914

Career position - Vice President, Section G (Engineering), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting

1914 - c. 1924

Career position - Practiced as a consulting engineer in Melbourne

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

Related entries

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 and Innovation Exhibitions

• Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Articles

• Newell, Jennifer and Sutherland, Denise, 'Scientists and Colonists', Australasian Science, Summer (1997), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_colonists.htm. Details

Books

• Maiden, J. H., A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus, 8 vols (Sydney: Government Printer, 1903 - 1933). Details
• Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Walker, J. D., 'Deane, Henry (1847-1924), engineer and scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 259-260. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080279b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Smith, Keith A, 'Eucalyptus Deanei: Some Aspects of Railway Engineering Before and After the Federation of the Australian States', in Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), pp. 133-139., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.520735054966081. Details

Edited Books

• Chrimes, M. M.; Cox, R. C.; Cross-Rudkin, P. S. M.; Elton, J. M. H.; Hurst, B. L.; McWilliam, R. C.; Rennison, R. W.; Sutherland, R. J. M.; Thomas, R. E. ed., Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: 1890-1920 (London, United Kingdom: Thomas Telford Publishing, 2014), 775 pp. 'Deane, Henry', pp.177-8. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Memoirs', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1924), 395-408, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.862459635586528. 'Henry Deane', pp.398-399. Details
• Arthur, Ian, 'Henry Deane, railway engineer', ASHET News, 7 (4) (2014), 1, 3-6. Details
• 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, 20 (1895), 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, 20 (1895), 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, 21 (1896), 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, 22 (1897), 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, 22 (1897), 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, 23 (1898), 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, 23 (1898), 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, 24 (1899), 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, 24 (1899), 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, 25 (1900), 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, 26 (1901), 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, 26 (1901), 122-144. Details
• Smith, Keith A., 'Eucalyptus deanei', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 2 (1) (2004), 83-90, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.479574821456717. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94328550. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5720270. Details
• 'Economical railway construction in New South Wales. (including plate at back of volume)', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1900.18719. Details
• 'Discussion. Economical railway construction in New South Wales and the Tocopilla railway', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1900.18721. Details
• 'Obituary. Henry Deane, 1847-1924', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1924.15699. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 3296, 1874', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Deane, Henry (1847-1924)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-614153. Details

See also

• Andersen, Casper, 'Colonial connections and consulting engineers 1850-1914', Proceedings of the ICE: Engineering History and Heritage, 164 (4) (2011), 201-209, https://doi.org/10.1680/ehah.2011.164.4.201. Details
• Dorman, Selwyn; Hagarty, Don; Johnson, Geoff; Reid, Noel; Sharp, Stuart; Winney, Ken, 'Chapter 4: Sydney's railways' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 63-96. Details
• Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. p.62. Details
• Fagg, Murray, 'Deane, Henry (1847-1924)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/deane-henry.html. Details
• Fraser, Don, 'American Bridges of the NSW North Coast Railway', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 7 (2) (2009), 109-115, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.311400883471193. Details
• 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 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
• Popplewell, Lawrence, A Gazetteer of the Railway Contractors and Engineers of Australia 1854-1940. Volume 1 (Southbourne, Dorset: Melledgen Press, 1992). Details
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details