Horace Mann Jr.

Horace Mann Jr. ( born February 25, 1844 in Boston, † November 11, 1868 ) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " H.Mann ".

Life

Horace Mann Jr. was the son of the education reformer Horace Mann ( 1796-1859 ). While studying at the Lawrence Scientific School, he attended the lectures of Louis Agassiz Zoology and Botany courses at Asa Gray. In 1864 he undertook together with William Tufts Brigham botanical expeditions to the Hawaiian Islands, where they discovered over 100 new plant taxa. These included the genera Platydesma and Alsinidendron. After returning to the Lawrence Scientific School man wrote his doctoral thesis on the Hawaiian flora, entitled " Enumeratio of Hawaiian Plants", which was published in 1867. It was Asa Gray's wish that Horace Mann junior, his successor at the Botanical Garden and at the Department of Botany at Harvard University is. Before man could take office, he died on November 11, 1868 at the age of 24 years of tuberculosis.

In addition to " Enumeratio of Hawaiian Plants" wrote the man manuscripts to other works on the Hawaiian flora, including " Flora of the Hawaiian Islands " or " Analysis of the Hawaiian Flora" that were stopped by William Tufts Brigham and published by Mann's death.

Ehrentaxa

William Tufts Brigham named Cyanea mannii, Wilhelm Hillebrand Huperzia mannii and Cryptocarya mannii, William Munro Poa mannii and Daniel Cady Eaton named Fern Diellia mannii in honor of Horace Mann junior.