428 Obituary — Dr. E. A. Newell Arher. 



this part of England — "In the old days in the train I approached 

 Bideford with great sinkings of heart. The possibilities of failure 

 were immense and the chances of success seemed nil. Altogether 

 1 suppose it was the hardest nut I shall ever have to crack and 

 I marvel at ra)' luck." Later, as a by-product of this stratigraphical 

 study, he was drawn to an investigation of the physical geology of 

 North Devon, and in particular of the coastal waterfalls, which 

 resulted in his book on the coast scenery of the region (1911). 

 In much of this work D. G. Lillie and Inkermann Kogers were 

 associated with him. 



That deep-seated delight in field-work, which is in some ways the 

 ultimate joy of the geologist, is indicated by a passage from one of 

 Newell Arber's letters, which may perhaps not unfitly conclude this 

 tentative outline of his geological life. "I thought I would take 

 a holiday for the rest of the evening and indulge in a fit of ' field- 

 fever ' or ' field-dreams '. I wonder if you know what this is. Poor 

 old Robert Dick heard or felt ' field-work ' calling many a time. 

 People who have been in the East, tell me they very often feel a great 

 longing to return again. ... A perfect day when one is in the 

 field is one of the };;reatest things on earth. . . . My mania is quite 

 a modest one. It is a desire to visit every spot in this country where 

 fossil plants have ever been found. To gain that full power of know- 

 ledge which can only be got by having been to the place, seen it, 

 photographed it and collected from it. When you have done this 

 you have a ' grip' which is masterly." . . 



List of the more important Geological and Pal^obotanical Books 

 AND Memoirs by E. A. Newell Arber. (A number of titles, including 

 all pm-ely botanical work, have been omitted for the sake of brevity.) 



1901. " Notes on Eoyle's Types of Fossil Plants from India " : Geol. Mag., 



Dec. IV, Vol. VIII, pp. 546-9. 



1902. " On the Clarke Collection of Fossil Plants from New South Wales " r 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. Iviii, pp. 1-26, 1 pi., 1 text-fig. 

 "Notes on the Binney Collection of Coal-Measure Plants. Part III : 

 The Type Specimens of Lrjginodendron Oldhamium (Binney) " : 

 Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc, vol. xi, pp. 281-5, 2 text-figs. 



1903. ' ' The Fossil Flora of the Cumberland Coalfield, and the Palffiobotanical 



Evidence with regard to the Age of the Beds " : Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, vol. lix, pp. 1-22, 2 pis. , 



(Conjointly with A. C. Seward.) "Las Nipadites des Couches Eocenes 



de la Belgique " : Mem. du Musee royal d'hist. nat. de Belgique, 



t. 2, 16 pp., 3 pis. 

 ' ' Notes on some Fossil Plants collected by Mr. Molyneux in Rhodesia ' ' : 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. lix, pp. 288-90. 

 "On the Roots of Medullosa anglica'" : Ann. Bot., vol. xvii, 



pp. 425-33, 1 pi. 

 "The Use of Carboniferous Plants as Zonal Indices" : Trans. Inst. 



Min. Eng., pp. 371-80. 

 "On Homoeomorphy among Fossil Plants" : Geol. Mag., Dec. IV, 



Vol. X, pp. 385-8. 

 ' ' Notes on Fossil Plants from the Ardwick Series of Mtinchester ' ' ; 



Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc, vol. xlviii, Man. 



Mem., No. 2, 32 pp., 1 pL, 1 text-fig. 



1904. " Cupressinoxylon Hookeri, sp. nov., a large Silicified Tree from 



Tasmania": Geol. Mag., Dec V, Vol. I, pp. 7-11, 1 pl.^ 

 2 text-figs. 



