Adriance Sherwood Foster (1901–1973) was an American botanist known for his studies of plant anatomy.
The first plant anatomist at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a two-time recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the International Society of Plant Morphologists.
[1] Foster was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, August 6, 1901, and earned a B.S.
at Cornell in 1923, followed by a master's (1925) and doctorate (1926) at Harvard under Irving W. Bailey.
[1] Foster died on May 1, 1973, from complications of spinal osteomyelitis.