^"Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927". جامعة هارفارد. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2010-06-27. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2009-02-20. Frank Meyer, born Frans Meijer in Amsterdam, began his horticultural career at age 14 working as a gardener's helper at the Amsterdam Botanical Garden. . At age 22, Meyer set out for America by way of England and arrived in the United States in late 1901. . After a year with the USDA, Meyer went to Mexico to study and collect plants. Upon Meyer's return in 1904, David Fairchild (1869-1954), Chairman of the Foreign Plant Introduction Section of the USDA, hired Meyer to make a collecting trip to China for the department. .
^"The Meyer Lemon: More Than A Pretty Face". الإذاعة الوطنية العامة. 18 فبراير 2009. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2018-06-16. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2009-02-20. In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent Frank N. Meyer, an agricultural explorer . on several trips to Asia with the mission of collecting new plant species. Among more than 2,500 plants that he introduced to the U.S., the Meyer lemon was named in his honor. Sadly, Meyer would never live to see the success of his namesake. He died on an expedition near Shanghai in 1918. .