According to Wikipedia, Chester Arthur Arnold was an American paleobotanist, born June 25, 1901, in Leeton, Missouri, and died on 19 November 1977. Family, education and career He was the son of farmers Elmer and Edith Arnold. Arnolds family moved to Ludlowville, New York, and he attended Cornell University with the intent to study agriculture. Interaction with Loren Petry, a Cornell professor studying Devonian plants of the region, lead to Arnold shifting his focus to paleobotany. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1924, his Ph.D. in 1929 with his thesis on Devonian megafloral paleobotany. He started working at the faculty of botany, University of Michigan from 1928 and became curator of the collection of fossil plants in 1929. Arnold became a professor in 1947. He maintained close relations with researchers in India, being a friend of Birbal Sahni, of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany and served his year in residence from 1958 to 1959 at the institute. Arnold was a member of many learned societies and was the author of the Introduction to Paleobotany published in 1947.
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Observations on Fossil Plants from the Devonian of Eastern North America. IV. Plant Remains from the Catskill Delta Deposits of Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York (1939) (33)
Observations on Fossil Plants from the Devonian of Eastern North America. II. Archaeopteris macilenta and A. sphenophyllifolia of Lesquereux (1936) (6)
Observations on Fossil Plants from the Devonian of Eastern North America. III. Gilboaphyton goldringiae, gen. et sp. nov., from the Hamilton of Eastern New York (1937) (6)
A New Tempskya (1958) (6)
Some Fossil Species of Mahonia from the Tertiary of Eastern and Southeastern Oregon (1936) (6)
