Edward Alexander Newall Arber (1870--1918)是英国古植物学家和地质学家。他的父亲是专攻英国文学的著名学者--Edward Arber (1836--1912)。

Fig.1. Edward Alexander Newall Arber (1870–1918), British palaeobotanist and geologist [cited from Henry N. Andrews Jr. (1980)]

   1895年，Edward Alexander Newall Arber进入剑桥大学三一学院。此后，他相继获得了硕士、博士学位。（我还没有考证到他的学位论文信息。）

 承蒙著名地质学教授Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832--1917)的提携，Edward Alexander Newall Arber于1899年在剑桥大学Sedgwick博物馆获得一个古植物学方面的固定职位（Demonstrator in Paeobotany）。Edward Alexander Newall Arber不仅开展化石植物的采集、馆藏、研究和标本展览，而且给学生讲授古植物学课程。他认识了他的一个女学生，即未来的妻子--Agnes Robertson Arber (FRS, 1879--1960)。英国著名古植物学家Hugh Hamshaw Thomas (FRS, 1885--1962)也曾是Edward Alexander Newall Arber的学生。

   1909年，Edward Alexander Newall Arber和Agnes Robertson Arber结婚。1913年，他们的女儿Muriel Agnes Arber (1913--2004)降生。

Edward Alexander Newall Arber的著述很多，包括现代高山植物的研究，这与他少年时代的科学兴趣和在瑞士山地的实际生活有密切联系。1918年，他不幸英年早逝。

   Agnes Robertson Arber成为卓越的植物学家，她专攻植物形态学和解剖学，对植物学历史和生物哲学也有独到研究。她于1946年当为英国皇家学会院士，系该学会【英国国家科学院】的第1位女性植物学家、第3位女性科学家。Muriel Agnes Arber也是才女，曾在剑桥大学完成本科(B.A.1935)和硕士学位(M.A.1938)，出版著作，并协助其母亲从事科学研究。

Sketchy biography: Edward Alexander Newall Arber, British palaeobotanist and geologist, was born in 1870 and he died in 1918. His father was Edward Arber (1836--1912), who was an English academic and writer.

In 1895 Edward Alexander Newall Arber went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he spent the rest of his life. He got his M.A. and Sc.D. degrees there. It is Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832--1917), a Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University, who led Edward Alexander Newall Arber to make study of fossil plants and appointed him Demonstrator in Paeobotany in the Woodwardian (later Sedgwick) Museum in 1899. Edward Alexander Newall Arber worked on the curating and research of the palaeobotanical collections, delivered elementary and advanced lectures and made demonstrations in palaeobotany. He was a prolific researcher of recent and fossil plants (see Appendix1).

In 1909 Edward Alexander Newall Arber got married with Agnes Robertson Arber (1879--1960), who became a British plant morphologist, anatomist historian of botany, and philosopher of biology, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946. In 1913 the couple had one child, i.e. Muriel Agnes Arber (1913--2004).

In 1918 Edward Alexander Newall Arber died of illness at age of 48.

Fig.2. The tombstone of Edward Alexander Newall Arber (1870–1918) and Agnes Robertson Arber (1879--1960) [cited fromhttp://www.findagrave.com]

Acknowledgement: The relevant images in the Story of Palaeobany Series are cited for pedagogical and scientific purposes and gratefully acknowledged.

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参见：

Edward Alexander Newall Arber (1870--1918) & Agnes Robertson Arber(1879--1960),

http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2010/247/58191959_128368185377.jpg

Edward Alexander Newall Arber (1870--1918)

Cambridge University: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb590-arbr

Agnes Robertson Arber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Arber

Edward Arber (1836—1912)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Arber

Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832--1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McKenny_Hughes

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences,is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge,England. The Sedgwick Museum is one of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.^[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgwick_Museum_of_Earth_Sciences

John Woodward (1 May 1665 – 25 April 1728)was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist,and founder by bequest of theWoodwardian Professorship ofGeology at Cambridge University. Though a leading supporter of theimportance of observation and experiment in what we now call science, few ofhis theories have survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodward_(naturalist)

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Appendix 1Dr. Edward Alexander Newall Arber’s partial publications

Devonian floras : a study of the origin of Cormophyta / by E. A. Newell Arber;with a preface by D. H. Scott; with a frontispiece and forty-seven figures in the text.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

Cambridge : The University Press, 1921.

Holding library:UL:Order in Rare Books Room (Not borrowable) –  MF.68.30

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The coast scenery of North Devon : being an account of the geological features ofthe coast-line extending from Porlock in Somerset to Boscastle in NorthCornwall / E.A. Newell Arber.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

London : Dent, 1911.

Holding library:UL:Order in Rare Books Room (Not borrowable) –  MF.75.44

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Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of alpine plants / by Edward AlexanderNewell Arber.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

London : John Murray, 1910.

Holding library:BotanicGardens: Cory Library –  F

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The natural history of coal / by E.A. Newell Arber.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

Cambridge : Cambridge U.P., 1911.

Series:Cambridge manuals of science and literature

Holding library: UL:Order in Reading Room –  9340.d.95

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Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department ofgeology, British Museum (Natural history) : Being a monograph of thepermo-carboniferous flora of India and the southern hemisphere / By E.A.Newell Arber.

British Museum. Department of Geology.

London : Printed by order of the Trustees,1905.

Holding library:UL:Order in Rare Books Room (Not borrowable) –  MC.67.37

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Fossil plants : sixty photographs illustrating the flora of thecoal measures / by E. A. Newell Arber.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

London : Gowans & Gray, 1909.

Series:Gowans's nature books ; No. 21.

Holding library:UL:Order in West Room (Not borrowable) –  1910.5.92

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Lesnipadites des couches éocènes de la Belgique / par A. C. Seward ... et E. A.N. Arber.

Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941.

Bruxelles: Polleunis & Ceuterick, imprimeurs, 1903.

Series:

Mémoires (Institut Royal des sciencesnaturelles de Belgique) ; II, fasc. 3.

Holding library: UL:South Front, Floor 6 –  399.a.1.2

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Devonian floras : a study of the origin of Cormophyta / by E. A.Newell Arber;with a preface by D. H. Scott; with a frontispiece and forty-seven figures inthe text.

Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.

Cambridge : The University Press, 1921.

Holding library: UL:Order in Rare Books Room (Not borrowable) –  MF.68.30

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On some fossil plants from the Devonian rocks of North Devon / By E.A. Newell Arber andR.H. Goode.

Arber, A.E. Newell (Alexander Edward Newell), 1870-1918.

Cambridge, 1915.

Holding library: UL:Order in Rare Books Room (Not borrowable) –  Cam.c.915.6

---------The lower Carboniferous (Carboniferous limestone) flora of theBallycastle Coalfield, Co. Antrim

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The structure of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, with specialreference to the concealed areas and to the neighbouring fields.

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On Psygmophyllum majus, sp. nov., from the lower Carboniferousrocks of Newfoundland, together with a revision of the genus and remarks on itsaffinities.

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A sketch of the history of palaeobotany : with special reference tothe fossil flora of the British coal measures

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A sketch of the history of paleobotany.

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The use of Carboniferous Plants as zonal indices.

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Notes on fossil plants from the Ardwick Series of Manchester

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Bibliography of Literature on Palaeozoic Fossil Plants : includingsome of the more important memoirs published between 1870-1905.

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Catalogue of portraits by palaeobotanists

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The British and Swiss alpine floras.

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On Triassic species of the genera Zamites and Pterophyllum : typesof fronds belonging to the cycadophyta

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