Lincoln Constance (February 16, 1909 – June 11, 2001) was an American botanist and administrator at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. Constance worked with
Marion S. Cave for over twenty years to identify how many chromosomes different members of
Hydrophyllaceae had. An expert on the
parsley family, he was a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and the
California Academy of Sciences
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, and served as president of the
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botany, botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribut ...
, the
California Botanical Society and the
Botanical Society of America.
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American taxonomists
1909 births
2001 deaths
Botanists active in California
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
People associated with the California Academy of Sciences
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty
Botanical Society of America
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
20th-century American botanists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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