Drouet, Francis, 1907-1982

LC control no.	n 85179153
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Drouet, Francis, 1907-1982 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1907-03-01
Death date	1982-12
Place of birth	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Affiliation	University of Missouri Field Museum of Natural History New Mexico Highlands University University of Arizona Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Profession or occupation	Algologists
Found in	His Revision of the Nostocaceae with constricted trichomes, 1978, c1977: t.p. (Francis Drouet) t.p. verso (Acad. of Natural Sci., Philadelphia) LC data base, 9/11/85 (hdg.: Drouet, Francis, 1907- ) JSTOR Global Plants, via WWW, June 9, 2016 (Drouet, Francis Elliott (1907-1982); American algologist; Francis Drouet was born in Philadelphia, but spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Independence, Missouri; he earned his BA, MA and Ph. D. degrees in botany from the University of Missouri; his initial interests were in flowering plants, but he soon became fascinated with blue-green algae, and made contributions to both disciplines in his earliest publications (1930-1936); his later papers and books dealt almost exclusively with blue-green algae, which he studied in the field, from cultures, and in the herbarium; after completing his degree programme, he remained at the University of Missouri as a herbarium assistant until 1935 when he accepted an invitation from the Brazilian government to assist as a botanist in a fish culture programme; in 1938 he won a Seessel fellowship to study botany at Yale University; after two years at Yale, he was appointed Curator of the Cryptogamic Herbarium at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, a post he held for 20 years; he became a research associate at New Mexico Highlands University in 1958 and the next year professor of botany at the University of Arizona; in 1961 he joined the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia as a research fellow and curator of the Algal Herbarium; for the next 21 years, he worked on the remaining four volumes of his monograph series on the blue-green algae; shortly before his death, he also completed a summary of the family Myxophyceae) ancestry.com, June 9, 2016 (Francis E . Drouet; Francis Drouet; born March 1, 1907 in Pennsylvania; died December 1982)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 85228286