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Francis Ernest Lloyd (October 4, 1868 – October 10, 1947) was an American
botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
.


Life

Lloyd was born in
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,
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, and educated at
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(A.B., 1891; A.M., 1895), in
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, and in
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at
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and
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, in
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. He was employed at various institutions of higher learning from 1891 onward. He served on the faculties of
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, Pacific University, Teachers College (
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),
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,
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(professor of botany, 1906–1912), and at
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, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada after 1912. Lloyd worked as an investigator in the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in 1906 and as cytologist of the
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in 1907. He edited ''The Plant World'' from 1905 to 1908, and was co-author of ''The Teaching of Biology in the Secondary Schools'' (1904; second edition, 1914).


Works

Lloyd wrote: * ''The Comparative Embryology of the Rubiaceae'' (1902) * ''The Physiology of Stomata'' (1908)
''Guayule''
(1911) * ''
The Carnivorous Plants ''The Carnivorous Plants'' is a major work on carnivorous plants by American botanist Francis Ernest Lloyd. It was first published in 1942 by the Chronica Botanica Company as the ninth volume of ''A New Series of Plant Science Books''. It was r ...
'' (1942)


References

* D'Amato, P. 2010. The Savage Garden: 'Lloydie'. '' Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'' 39(2): 47–49. 1868 births 1947 deaths American botanists American science writers Auburn University faculty Teachers College, Columbia University faculty English emigrants to the United States Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Harvard University faculty McGill University faculty Pacific University faculty Scientists from Manchester Princeton University alumni Williams College faculty {{US-botanist-stub