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classical memoir " Om spar af nagra evertebrerade djur, etc." (1881, 

 K. Svenska Yet. Akad. Handl., vol. xviii, No. 7), have shown tha,t 

 they are almost certainly to be attributed to Crustacea, Such a 

 track as the present one was probably formed by a large crustacean 

 swimming close to the sea-floor rather than crawling on a mud-flat. 

 It is of the same general character as Polylcampton alpinum Ooster, 

 1869, from the Ehsetiq of Switzerland (" Protozoe Helvetica," 

 vol. i, p. 23, pi. iv), and Delesserites foliatus E,. Ludwig, 1869, from 

 the Upper Devonian of Dillenburg {PalceontograpMca, vol. xvii, 

 p. 113, pi. XX, fig. 4).— F. A. B. 



O B ITTT.A.DR.'Z'. 



E. A. NEWELL ARBER, 

 M.A., Sc.D., r.G.S., F.L.S. * 



Born August 5, 1870. Died June 14, 1918. 



(WITH A PORTEAIT, PLATE XV.) 



Edwaet) Alexandek Newell Akber was born at No. 5 Queen 

 Square, Bloomsbury, in 1870. His father was Edward Arber, 

 afterwards Professor of English at Mason's College, Birmingham, 

 and known as the editor of many English classics. His mother 

 {nee Marion Murray), the daughter of a Glasgow publisher, was the 

 niece of Dr. John Sutherland, an early authority on army sanitation, 

 who was closely associated with Florence Nightingale's work in the 

 Crimea. 



Newell Arber had much illness in early boyhood, and at the age of 

 fifteen he was sent, for the sake of his health, to Davos, where he 

 spent more than a year. It was during his first Swiss summer that 

 he awoke to the fascination of botany; his interest in geology was 

 aroused later, apparenth' at the beginning of his Cambridge career. 

 In 1895 he came up to Trinity College, and after an undergraduate 

 period broken by ill-health, he took the two parts of the Natural 

 Sciences Tripos in 1898 and 1899, specializing in BotAny and Geology. 



In 1899 Professor T. McKenny Hughes nominated Newell Arber 

 to a Demonstratorship in Palaeobotany in the Woodwardian (after- 

 wards Sedgwick) Museum. This post, which he held for the rest of 

 his life, involved the curating of the palseobotanical collections, as 

 well as elementary and advanced lectures and demonstrations in 

 fossil botany. Newell Arber threw himself enthusiastically into 

 museum work, and during his tenure of the Demonstratorship about 

 5,000 plant fossils were added to the collections, almost entirely 

 through his instrumentality. Between 1901 and 1906 he was also 

 responsible — in the first year, under Dr. Henry Woodward, and after 

 that, under his successor, Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward — for the 

 naming and arrangement of the palaeobotanical specimens in the 

 Geological Department of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). He 

 consolidated hi's knowledge of fossil plants by repeated visits to most 

 of the principal museums in Europe in which important collections 

 are to be found. 



Research flourished in Newell Arber' s laboratorv, where, in 



