Francis Ernest Lloyd (October 4, 1868 – October 10, 1947) was an American

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Life

Lloyd was born in

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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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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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(

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(professor of botany, 1906–1912), and at

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, in

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, Canada after 1912. Lloyd worked as an investigator in the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the

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in 1906 and as

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of the Arizona Experiment Station 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) * with Maurice A. Bigelow, ''The Teaching of Biology in the Secondary School'' (1904) **
''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'. ''

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'' 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 Academic staff of McGill University Pacific University faculty Scientists from Manchester Princeton University alumni Williams College faculty {{US-botanist-stub