Manuscripts by Horace Mann, 1860?-1868 (bulk).

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Manuscripts by Horace Mann, 1860?-1868 (bulk).

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Contains primarily drafts and notes pertaining to the partially published Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Of unpublished portions of this work, the section on monopetalous exogenous plants was largely completed; that on apetalous exogenous plants partially done; and only general notes exist for the endogenae section.

10 folders.

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Brigham, William Tufts, 1841-1926

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Mann, Horace, 1844-1868

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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, leavi...