Guide to the Stanley A. Cain papers, 1960-1994 MS.106
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Finding aid revised in 2018
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Stanley A. Cain papers
creator:
Cain, Stanley Adair
Identifier/Call Number: MS.106
Physical Description:
6.25 Linear Feet
7 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1945-1994
Abstract: This collection includes biographical
materials, correspondence, writings, speeches and conference proceedings as well as leaf
book text and drawings, research notes and research material not by Cain.
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Collection is open for research.
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Stanley A. Cain papers, MS 106, Special Collections, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of the Cain Family.
Stanley Adair Cain was born in Indiana in 1902. He received his bachelor's degree from
Butler University and his Ph.D. in botany from the
University of Chicago and held teaching positions at
Butler, Indiana University, the
University of Tennessee and the University of
Michigan. In 1950 he joined the University of Michigan as
the Charles Lathrop Pack Professor of Conservation and Botany and founded the Department of
Conservation, the first such academic department in the country. He remained at Michigan
until his mandatory retirement in 1972. Cain was called "one of the foremost thinkers in the
field of plant ecology" by William Stapp, professor emeritus of
resource planning and conservation at the University of Michigan. "What
was most significant to me and many students who worked under him was that he approached his
work from ecological, economic, political and social perspectives. Everything he did had a
very interdisciplinary perspective -- and that was really new thinking in the 1950s." After
retirement from University of Michigan he moved to University
of California, Santa Cruz, where he was chairman of a committee that planned
UCSC's College Eight, which opened in 1972 with an emphasis on environmental studies. Cain
had also served as an environmental consultant to UCSC founding chancellor, Dean
E. McHenry, before the sprawling 2,000 acre campus opened in 1965. Most
recently Cain had served as an adjunct professor of environmental studies at UCSC. Cain's
academic specialty was botany, but he was widely acknowledged for pioneering the study of
the relationship between people and the environment. Partly because of his work,
conservation became an increasing national concern from the 1940s through the 1950s. He was
appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and
Parks in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson and held the post until 1968. Among
his many honors, Cain was a member of the National Academy of Sciences
and had served as president of both the Ecological Society of America
and the first National Botanical Congress of America. He was also named
a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London and
received the Wildlife Society's Aldo Leopold Medal and four honorary
doctorates. Cain was also the author of two books, "
Foundations of
Plant Geography
" and "
Manual of Vegetation Analysis"
and the author of over 100 articles in scientific journals. Stanley A.
Cain died April 1, 1995.
This collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, reprints, writings,
speeches and conference proceedings as well as leaf book text and drawings, research notes.
Also included is research material not by Cain.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ecologists -- United States
Cain, Stanley Adair
University of California, Santa Cruz
box 1
Biographical materials, correspondence, writings, speeches, and conference proceedings 15659
box 2-4
Leaf book text and drawings 15658
box 5
Leaf book research notes, research material not by Stanley A. Cain 15657