Background
Foster, Adriance S. was born on August 6, 1901 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Son of Raymond and Alice (Adriance) Foster.
Foster, Adriance S. was born on August 6, 1901 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Son of Raymond and Alice (Adriance) Foster.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1923. South.M. Entertainment, Harvard, 1925, Doctor of Science, 1926.
The first plant anatomist at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a two-time recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the International Society of Plant Morphologists. His textbooks Practical Plant Anatomy and Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants were widely adopted and influential. Foster was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, August 6, 1901, and earned a Bachelor of Surgery at Cornell in 1923, followed by a master"s (1925) and doctorate (1926) at Harvard under Irving West. Bailey.
After earning his doctorate he spent two years in England working at the University of Leeds, and from 1928 to 1934 was professor of botany at the University of Oklahoma.
He joined the University College Berkeley faculty in 1934, retiring as professor emeritus in 1968. Foster died on May 1, 1973 from complications of spinal osteomyelitis.
The standard author transcript A.S.Foster is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
Member International Society Plant Morphologists (president executive council 1970-1973), American Institute Biological Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Botanical Society American, Academy Arts and Science, California Academy Sciences, California Native Plant Society, Zoologische Botannical Gesellschaft (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Helen North. Vincent, July 29, 1930.