Edward Alexander Newell Arber (5 August 1870,

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– 14 June 1918,

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. His father was the literary scholar and anthologist

Edward Arber Edward Arber (4 December 183623 November 1912) was an English scholar, writer, and editor. Background and professional work Arber was born in London. From 1854 he 1878 he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty, and began evening classes at Ki ...

. Arber was born at No. 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury. Sent to

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in Switzerland at the age of 15 for health reasons he developed an interest in botany. Returning home he studied Botany and Geology at

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(1895-1899), where he later became a professor, specialising in palaeobotany. From 1899 until the end of his life he was appointed demonstrator in Palaeobotany in the Woodwardian ater SedgwickMuseum in Cambridge. Between 1901 and 1906 he worked on the naming and arrangement of the palaeobotanical specimens in the Geology Department of the British Museum. 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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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 British paleobotanists {{UK-botanist-stub