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

Francis Ernest Lloyd
Francis Ernest Lloyd (right) with chemist Helen Miles Davis
Born	(1868-10-04)October 4, 1868 Manchester, England
Died	October 10, 1947(1947-10-10) (aged 79) Carmel, California (USA)
Scientific career
Fields	Botany Cytology
Institutions	Williams College Pacific University Teachers College, Columbia University Harvard University Alabama Polytechnic Institute McGill University Desert Botanical Laboratory Arizona Experiment Station

Life

Lloyd was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1891; A.M., 1895), in New Jersey, and in Europe at Munich and Bonn, in Germany. He was employed at various institutions of higher learning from 1891 onward. He served on the faculties of Williams College, Pacific University, Teachers College (Columbia University), Harvard Summer School, Alabama Polytechnic Institute (professor of botany, 1906–1912), and at McGill University, 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 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)
• The Physiology of Stomata (1908)
• Guayule (1911)
• The Carnivorous Plants (1942)

References

• D'Amato, P. 2010. The Savage Garden: 'Lloydie'. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(2): 47–49.

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