Mann, Horace, 1844-1868

Mann was born in Boston in 1844, the eldest son of the well-known educator, Horace Mann. He received much of his education informally from his father and also studied zoology and botany with Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School. Mann specialized in Hawaiian plants, and prepared his thesis on this subject. It was published in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science (1866), and Mann received his degree in 1867. He died a year later of tuberculosis, leaving his magnum opus, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, unfinished.

From the description of Manuscripts by Horace Mann, 1860?-1868 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 43814168

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