> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 351](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259855) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2845-1) LSID 2845-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4492105) QID Q4492105 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Foster, Adriance Sherwood (1901-1973), American plant anatomist, born 6 Aug 1901 in Poughkeepsie, New York, B.Sc. 1923 Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, M.Sc. 1925 and D.Sc. 1926 Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass., Natl. Research Council Fellowship, Univ. of Leeds, England 1926-1928, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman 1928-1934, Prof. of Botany (Plant Anatomy), Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley 1934-1968, dept. chair 1955-1960, Guggenheim Fellowship 1945, president, B.S.A. 1955, president, Intl. Association Plant Morphologists, died 1 Mai 1973 in Berkeley. **Abbreviated name**: *A.S. Foster* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.S.Foster*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection UC|UC]], some material [[Collection DBN|DBN]] (Bryoph.), [[Collection OSC|OSC]]. #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 10: 1246; APN p. 207; Barnhart 1: 561; BFM p. 283 (index); Bossert p. 131; GR p. 216; Kew 2: 318-317; Langman p. 289; NW p. 45 (index); Portr. 1: 61 (index); Tucker 3: 110. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 469. 1931; Taxon 22: 523-524. 1973. - Constance, L., 1978. Botany at Berkeley: passim. (portrs., figs. 53-54) - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 53. - Gifford, E.M., 1973 \[i.e. 1974\]. Phytomorphology 23: 125-126. (portr.) - Kaplan, D.R., 1973. Pl. Sci. Bull. 19(4): 57-59. (portr.) - Kaplan, D.R. et al., 1977. Univ. of Calif.: In Memoriam, May 1977. \[electronic resource\] - Synnott, D.M., 1980. Glasra 4: 22. (specimens at DBN) #### Outside our period Author or co-author of several influential and successful textbooks, incl.: - (1) Foster, *Practical plant anatomy*, New York (D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.) 1942; ed. 2, Id. ... 1949; reprint of ed. 2,... Huntington, New York (R.E. Krieger Pub. Co.) 1974; this commercially published textbook preceeded by at least three non-commercial versions. - (2) Foster & E.M. Gifford, Jr. (a former student), *Comparative morphology of vascular plants*, San Francisco (W.H. Freeman) 1959; ed. 2,... Id. 1974; and Chinese transl.,... Beijing (Ke xue chu ban she) 1963; and ed. 3, revised and retitled, with E.M. Gifford, Jr. as first author: *Morphology and evolution of vascular plants*, New York (W.H. Freeman and Co.) 1988. – *Note*: The publisher also distributed a brochure (cover, 8 lvs.) entitled "Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants... Specimen pages for your inspection". *Copy*: K. ### Publications ##### n.35.221. cyto-taxonomic study **Title** A *cyto-taxonomic study* of the North American species of *Iris*... Published by the Gray Herbarium... 1937. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 12 Nov 1937 (issue date stamped on t.p.), p. \[1\]-82, *pl. 1-3*. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Contr. Gray Herb. 119: 1-82, *pl. 1-3*. 1937.