Lincoln Constance
Lincoln Constance (February 16, 1909 – June 11, 2001) was an American botanist and administrator at the University of California, Berkeley. Constance worked with Marion S. Cave for over twenty years to identify how many chromosomes different members of Hydrophyllaceae had.[1][2][3] An expert on the parsley family, he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences, and served as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the California Botanical Society and the Botanical Society of America.[4][5]
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| Born | 16 February 1909  Eugene |
| Died | 11 June 2001 (aged 92) |
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| Occupation | University teacher |
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The standard author abbreviation Constance is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
References
- Kaplan, Donald R.; Constance, Lincoln; Ornduff, Robert (1997). "Marion Stilwell Cave (1904-1995)". Madroño. 44 (2): 211–213. ISSN 0024-9637.
- "University of California: In Memoriam, 1996". texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- Cave, Marion Stilwell; Constance, Lincoln (1950). Chromosome Numbers in the Hydrophyllaceae. University of California Press.
- Saxon, Wolfgang (23 June 2001). "Lincoln Constance, 92, Expert Who Classified Farm Products". The New York Times.
- "Lincoln Constance; UC Berkeley Botanist and Key Administrator". Los Angeles Times. 18 June 2001.
- International Plant Names Index. Constance.
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