Chester A. Arnold

Chester Arthur Arnold was an American paleobotanist, born June 25, 1901, in Leeton, Missouri, and died on November 19, 1977.

Family, education and career He was the son of farmers Elmer and Edith Arnold. Arnold's family moved to Ludlowville, New York, and he attended Cornell University with the intent to study agriculture. to Oklahoma to Greenland. and Pseudolarix arnoldi.

Correspondence Arnold interacted with a number of eminent profession and amateur paleobotanists across the western US. While collecting fossils with Alonzo W. Hancock in the Clarno Formation of Oregon in 1941, Arnold and Hancock recovered the most complete Miomastodon skull known to date. In 1952 Arnold was the supervisor for Herman F. Becker who extensively studied the Ruby Basin Flora of Montana. Among the may correspondents of Arnold was Wesley C. Wehr, who became Affiliate curator of Paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle.