Francis Ernest Lloyd

Who was Francis Ernest Lloyd?

Francis Ernest Lloyd, M.A. was an American botanist, born in Manchester, England, and educated at Princeton University, 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, Harvard Summer School, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and at McGill University, in Montreal, 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. Professor Lloyd wrote:

The Comparative Embryology of the Rubiaceae

The Physiology of Stomata

Guayule

The Carnivorous Plants