Francis Elliott Drouet Explained

Francis Elliott Drouet
Birth Date:	1 March 1907
Birth Place:	Philadelphia
Death Date:	^[1]
Alma Mater:	University of Missouri
Fields:	Botany
Workplaces:	Field Museum Academy of Natural Sciences
Nationality:	American
Author Abbrev Bot:	F.E.Drouet

Francis Elliott Drouet (1907–1982) was an American phycologist, who collected specimens in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Panama.^[2]

Biography

Francis Drouet grew up in Independence, Missouri. After graduating from the University of Missouri with BA and MA in botany,^[2] he received there his PhD in botany in 1931.^[3] His publications from 1930 to 1936 deal with both flowering plants and blue-green algae (cyanophytes), but his later papers and books are almost exclusively on blue-green algae. He worked as a herbarium assistant at the University of Missouri until 1935. From 1935 to 1936 he was employed as a botanist in a one-year fish culture programme sponsored by the Brazilian government. From 1936 to 1939 he studied botany at Yale University on a Seessel fellowship.^[4] From 1939 to 1958 he was the curator of cryptogams at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.^[3]

At the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, he was a research fellow and curator of the algal herbarium from 1961 until his retirement in 1975. He is known primarily for his taxonomic revisions of several families of Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). He wrote a five-volume monograph series on the blue-green algae.^[4] His cyanophyte collection is curated in the botany department of the Smithsonian Institution.^[1]

Selected publications

• 3222185. Algal Vegetation of the Large Ozark Springs. Drouet. Francis. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 1933. 52. 2. 83–100. 10.2307/3222185.
• 10.2307/1537563. 1537563. The Morphology of Gonyostomum Semen from Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 1935. Drouet. Francis. 2. Cohen. Aaron. The Biological Bulletin. 68. 3. 422–439.
• 2436639. The Brazilian Myxophyceae. I.. Drouet. Francis. 2. American Journal of Botany. 1937. 24. 9. 598–608. 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1937.tb09153.x.
• 2436918. The Brazilian Myxophyceae. II. Drouet. Francis. 2. American Journal of Botany. 1938. 25. 9. 657–666. 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1938.tb12829.x.
• 2481233. Notes on Myxophyceae, I-IV. Drouet. Francis. 2. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1938. 65. 5. 285–292. 10.2307/2481233.
• 23301934. The Oscillatoriaceae of Southern Massachusetts. Drouet. Francis. 2. Rhodora. 1938. 40. 474. 221–241.
• 3222740. Myxophyceae of the Yale North India Expedition Collected by G. E. Hutchinson. Drouet. Francis. 2. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 1938. 57. 2. 127–131. 10.2307/3222740.
• 41822501. A Synopsis of the Coccoid Myxophyceae. Drouet. Francis. 2. Daily. William A.. Butler University Botanical Studies. 1952. 10. 11/23. 220–223.
• 3223637. Revision of the Coccoid Myxophyceae: Additions and Corrections. Drouet. Francis. Daily. 2. William A.. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 1957. 76. 2. 219–222. 10.2307/3223637.
• 4064573. Gomont's Ecophenes of the Blue-Green Alga, Microcoleus vaginatus (Oscillatoriaceae). Drouet. Francis. 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1962. 114. 191–205.
• 4064562. Ecophenes of Schizothrix calcicola (Oscillatoriaceae). Drouet. Francis. 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1963. 115. 261–281.

References

1. Smithsonian Institution receives the Francis Drouet Cyanophyte Collection. Taxon. 1984. 33. 1. 160.
2. Web site: Drouet, Francis Elliott (1907-1982). JSTOR Global Plants.
3. Web site: Dr. Francis E. Drouet (1907-1982). gulfbase.org.
4. Reimer C.W., Francis E. Drouet (1907-1982), in : Cryptogamie-Algologie, Paris, 1983, vol. 4, n° 3/4, pp. 227-232. ill. (including a biographical notice and a list of Drouet's publications).