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Title: Adriance S. Foster papers
Dates: 1957-1971
Collection number: MS-06
Creator:
Foster, Adriance S. (Adriance Sherwood), 1901-1973
Collection Size:
2 linear feet
Repository:
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (University of California, Santa Barbara). C. H. Muller Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9615
Abstract: Black and white photographs of plant tissue of various genera and associated research notes.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara. All requests
for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Cheadle Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Adriance S. Foster papers, MS-06, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. University of California, Santa
Barbara.
The collection was given to UCSB by Rudolph Schmid of University of California, Berkeley.
Arrangement and description of the collection was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Biography / Administrative History
Adriance Sherwood Foster was a pioneer in the field of plant anatomy. He was the first plant anatomist on the faculty at
University of California, Berkeley, teaching there from 1934 until his retirement in 1968. Some of his areas of investigation
were leaf differentiation, shoot growth and development, and leaf venation. He published over 35 articles and two introductory
textbooks:
Practical Plant Anatomy and
Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants, co-written by Ernest Gifford. Foster was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1901, was educated at Cornell and Harvard,
and received his D.Sc. in plant anatomy in 1926, studying under Irving Bailey.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists predominantly of black and white photographs and associated negatives of plant tissues and leaf clearings,
some of which were used for publication. About five different genera were photographed with the majority being of
Circaeaster, Kingonia, Ginkgo, and
Zamia. Series 1 consists of five folders of research notes and drafts used either for publication or lectures. Series 2 forms
the bulk of the collection.
The collection is organized into two series: Series 1 Research Notes and Series 2 Photographs. The photographs are arranged
alphabetically by plant genus and, within each genus, chronologically by the date on the photo.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Botanists--North America
Angiosperms--Morphology
Plant anatomy
Photographs
Foster, Adriance S. (Adriance Sherwood), 1901-1973