and correspondence at the University of Cambridge continued. He suffered a second stroke on 18 April 1958 and died several hours later. Awards and honours Arkell received a D Sc from the University of Oxford in 1934. In 1944 he received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1947. Arkell was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1949, and the Leopold von Buch medal of the German Geological Society in 1953. Works References External links 1904 births 1958 deaths People from Highworth People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge English palaeontologists Fellows of the Geological Society of London 20th-century British geologists Fellows of the Royal Society Lyell Medal winners