Francis Ernest Lloyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Ernest Lloyd

American botanist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1868

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1947

Profession: writer, botanist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Francis Ernest Lloyd (October 4, 1868 – October 10, 1947) was an American botanist, 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.
Professor Lloyd had 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).
Professor Lloyd wrote: The Comparative Embryology of the Rubiaceae (1902) The Physiology of Stomata (1908) Guayule (1911) The Carnivorous Plants (1942)