Francis Clark Howell
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Howell was a member of the United States' [National Academy of Sciences](/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences "National Academy of Sciences"), the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences "American Academy of Arts and Sciences"), and the [American Philosophical Society](/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society "American Philosophical Society"). He was also a member or fellow of the science institutes and academies of France, Britain and South Africa. He received the Charles Darwin Award for lifetime achievement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the Leakey Prize in 1998 from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. The California Academy of Sciences awarded him its Fellows Medal in 1990\.

At least seven extinct species are named for him. The species name *howelli* designates two mollusks, two ancestral species of civet cats, one hyena, an ancestral antelope and a primate of the loris family.


Which society awarded him its Fellows Medal in 1990?