Edward Alexander Newell Arber (5 August 1870,

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– 14 June 1918,

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and

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. He was a professor at the

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specialising in palaeobotany. He married plant morphologist and philosopher Agnes Robertson in 1909. They had many interests in common, and his marriage was described as 'happy'. They had one child, a daughter.Hanshaw Thomas, H. (1960) "Agnes Arber, 1879–1960 ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'' Vol.6 (Nov 1960) He died in 1918 following a period of ill health.Packer, K. (1997) ''Notes and records on the Royal Society of London'' Vol.51, No.1

Works

Partial list * 1905
''Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the department of geology, British Museum (natural history): being a monograph of the permo-carboniferous flora of India and the southern hemisphere''
Ed. Longmans. 255 pp. * 1910
''Plant life in Alpine Switzerland: being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants''
Ed. J. Murray. 355 pp. * 1911
''The Natural History of Coal''
Ed. University Press. 163 pp. Reeditó en 2008 Kessinger Publ. 176 pp. * 1911
''The coast scenery of North Devon: being an account of the geological features of the coast-line extending from Porlock in Somerset to Boscastle in North Cornwall''
Ed. J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. 261 pp. * 1917
''The earlier mesozoic Floras of New Zealand''
Volumen 6 de New Zealand. Dep. of Mines. New Zealand Geol. Survey. Palaeontological Bulletin. 80 pp. * 1921
''Devonian Floras; a study of the origin of Cormophyta''
100 pp. Reprinted in 2010 General Books LLC. 62 pp.

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National Portrait Gallery
Pencil and watercolour by Denis Gascoigne Lillie, probably 1905. English botanists English palaeontologists 1918 deaths 1870 births Scientists from London Academics of the University of Cambridge Paleobotanists {{UK-botanist-stub