| Authorised form of name | Arber; Agnes (1879 - 1960) |
| Other forms of surname | Robertson |
| Dates | 1879 - 1960 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 23 February 1879 |
| Place of death | Hope Nursing Home, Cambridge |
| Date of death | 22/03/1960 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Churchyard, Girton Church |
| Research field | Botany |
| Plant morphology |
| Activity | Education:
North London Collegiate School for Girls (1887); University College, London, BSc (1899); Newnham College, Cambridge
Career:
Rsearch Assistant to Miss Ethel Sargant, who had a private laboratory in her home, Reigate (1902); Quain Student in Biology, University College, London (1903-1908); research work at Balfour Laboratory, Newnham College (after 1909-1927); studied grasses and fossil plants; studied early printed herbals and published a book on them (1912); Research Fellow, Newnham College (1912-1913 and 1918-1920); Fellow of University College, London; Keddey Fletcher-Warr Student, University of London (1920-1923); Leverhulme Research Fellow (1936-1938); first woman botanist to be elected to the Royal Society
Memberships:
FLS (1908); Botanical Society of America (Corresponding Member)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1946 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Henry Robert Robertson who ran a private school at Slough, and his wife Agnes Lucy Turner; married (05 August 1909) Edward Alexander Newell Arber, demonstrator in paleobotany, Cambridge University; one daughter |
| Sources | Sources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1960 vol 6 pp 1-11, plate, by H Hamshaw Thomas
References:
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140
Kathryn Packer, 'A Laboratory of One's Own: The Life and Works of Agnes Arber, FRS (1879-1960)' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 87-104 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/100968547 |
| Royal Society code | NA7959 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/22/703 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Agnes Robertson, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 9 Elsworthy Terrace, N.W. | 27 June 1901 |
| NLB/52/468 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. B. Daydon Jackson | 15 December 1915 |
| NLB/58/372 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Agnes Arber, FRS; 52 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge | 26 April 1920 |
| RR/25/3 | Referee's report by William Henry Lang, on a paper 'On the occurrence of multinucleate cells vegetative tissues' by Rudolf Beer and Agnes Arber | [August 1918] |
| RR/25/2 | Referee's report by Harold William Taylor Wager, on a paper 'On the occurrence of multinucleate cells vegetative tissues' by Rudolf Beer and Agnes Arber | [July 1918] |
| NLB/58/360 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs. [Agnes] Arber, FRS; 52 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge | 23 April 1920 |
| NLB/57/107 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor VH [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS, Chairman, Botany Committee | 24 July 1919 |
| NLB/61/835 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Agnes Arber, FRS | 31 October 1921 |
| RR/26/3 | Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On the development and morphology of the leaves of palms' by Agnes Arber | [October 1921] |
| NLB/53/42 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George William] Lamplugh Esq.,Chairman of the Geology Committee of the Royal Society and FRS | 21 March 1916 |
| EC/1946/01 | Arber, Agnes: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/61 | New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 26 April 1921-11 November 1921 |
| IM/GA/WS/2291 | Arber, Agnes | 09 May 1946 |