Edward Alexander Newell Arber

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Edward Alexander Newell Arber (born August 5, 1870 in London , † June 14, 1918 in Cambridge ) was a British paleontologist ( paleobotanist ) and botanist . He was a professor at Cambridge University . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " E.Arber ".

Life

He was the son of the English professor at Mason College Edward Arber (1836-1912), went to school in Birmingham and studied from 1895 botany and geology at Trinity College, Cambridge. There he became a demonstrator for paleobotany at the Woodwardian Museum in 1899, which he remained until his death. His botanical interest awoke when he was 15 years old when he was taking a cure in Davos for health reasons. He later wrote a book about alpine plants. From 1901 to 1906 he also oversaw the paleobotany collection at the British Museum.

He studied the application of paleobotany to stratigraphy and wrote a book on fossil plants in coal, which was also translated into Russian.

From 1909 he was married to the botanist Agnes Robertson , who became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946.

In 1914 he became an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute for contributions to the geology of Australia. In 1917 he examined the fossil Mesozoic flora of New Zealand.

Fonts

  • Catalog 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, Longmans 1905
  • Plant life in Alpine Switzerland: being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants, J. Murray 1910
  • The Natural History of Coal, Cambridge University Press 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, JM Dent & Sons, 1911
  • The earlier mesozoic Floras of New Zealand, Department of Mines. New Zealand Geol. Survey. Palaeontological Bulletin, Volume 6, 1917
  • Devonian Floras. 1921
  • On Triassic species of the genera Zamites and Pterophyllum: Types of fronds belonging to the Cycadophyta. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 7 (7), 1907, pp. 109-127, Plates 17-19
  • On the affinities of the triassic plant Yuccites vogesiacus Schimper & Mougeot. The Geological Magazine New Series, Decade V, Volume 6, 1909, pp. 11-14,

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SURNAME Arber, Edward Alexander Newell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1918
Place of death Cambridge