ABSTRACT
Stanley Adair Cain (1902-1995) was a botanist, ecologist, and biogeographer who moved readily among leadership roles in academia, the federal government, and conservation biology throughout a career that spanned seven decades. Cain is one of the founders of the modern eld of conservation biology in the United States (Thomas 1995; Evans 1996). He helped establish the Nature Conservancy and served as its president; his academic appointments included Professor of Botany at the University of Tennessee and Charles Lathrop Pack Professor of Conservation at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources, where he started the Department of Conservation (Evans 1996). He served in the US federal government as Assistant Secretary of the Interior during a leave of absence from Michigan in the mid-1960s. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
