| Authorised form of name | Manton; Sidnie Milana (1902 - 1979) |
| Other forms of name | Mrs John P |
| Other forms of surname | Harding |
| Dates | 1902 - 1979 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, 1 Earls Court Square,England |
| Date of birth | 04/05/1902 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 02/01/1979 |
| Research field | Invertebrate embryology |
| Activity | Education:
School of Froebel Educational Institute, Kensington; St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith; Girton College, Cambridge (natural sciences tripos 1923, 1926); PhD (1928), ScD (1934)
Career:
Cambridge swimming captain (1923); Cambridge hockey blue (1924); Alfred Yarrow Student, Imperial College, London (1926); University Demonstrator, Cambridge (1927); Supervisor in zoology; Staff Fellow (1928-1935 and 1942-1945); Director of Studies (1935-1942); Visiting Lecturer, King's College, London (1943-1946); Research Fellow, Girton College (1945-1948); visited Tasmania to study freshwater syncarid crustaceans and joined the Great Barrier Reef expedition (for four months) (1928); Reader in Zoology, King's College, London (1949-1960); Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary College, London; Honorary Associate of the British Museum (natural history); published 'A manual of practical vertebrate morphology' (1931) and 'Colourpoint, Himalayan and Longhair cats' (1979)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| Relationships | Daughter of George Sidney Frederick Manton, dental surgeon of London, and his wife, Milana Andele Terese d'Humy; sister of Irene Manton (FRS 1961); married Dr John Philip Harding, later keeper of zoology, British Museum; one daughter, one adopted son; family descended from Charles Manton, chaplain to Charles II |
| Sources | Sources:
DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1980 vol 26 pp 327-356, plate, by G Fryer |
| Royal Society code | NA5956 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/002971 | Manning, Sidnie Milana | March 1962 |
| IM/GA/WS/3060 | Manton, Sidnie Milana | nd |
| RR/36/15 | Referee's report by William Thomas Calman, on a paper 'On the embryclogy of a mysid crustacean, Hemimysis lamornae' by Sidnie Milana Manton | [November 1927] |
| RR/58/74 | Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora, I. On the feeding, digestion, excretion and food storage of peripatopsis' by Sidnie Milana Manton | November 1936 |
| RR/63/3 | Referee's report by Stanley Wells Kemp, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora, IV - The passage of spermatozoa into the ovary on Peripatopsis and the early developments of the ova' by Sidnie Milana Manton | May 1937 |
| RR/63/2 | Referee's report by Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora, IV - The passage of spermatozoa into the ovary on Peripatopsis and the early developments of the ova' by Sidnie Milana Manton | May 1937 |
| RR/70/165 | Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora VII. The early embryonic stages of Peripatopsis, and some general considerations concerning the morphology and phylogeny of the arthropoda' by Sidnie Milana Manton | 1947 |
| RR/70/163 | Letter from Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora VII. The early embryonic stages of Peripatopsis, and some general considerations concerning the morphology and phylogeny of the arthropoda' by Sidnie Milana Manton to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 9 February 1948 |
| IM/GA/WRS/9585 | Manton, Sidnie Milana | nd |
| EC/1948/14 | Manton, Sidnie Milana: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/58/73 | Referee's report by Stanley Wells Kemp, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora, I. On the feeding, digestion, excretion and food storage of peripatopsis' by Sidnie Milana Manton | November 1936 |
| RR/70/166 | Referee's report by Gavin Rylands de Beer, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora VII. The early embryonic stages of Peripatopsis, and some general considerations concerning the morphology and phylogeny of the arthropoda' by Sidnie Milana Manton | 15 December 1947 |
| RR/50/46 | Referee's report by William Thomas Calman, on a paper 'On the embryology of the crustacean Nebalia Bipes' by Sidnie Milana Manton | 28 April 1933 |
| RR/36/14 | Referee's report by Ernest William MacBride, on a paper 'On the embryology of a mysid crustacean, Hemimysis lamornae' by Sidnie Milana Manton | nd [1927] |
| RR/50/45 | Referee's report by Ernest William MacBride, on a paper 'On the embryology of the crustacean Nebalia Bipes' by Sidnie Milana Manton | May 1933 |
| RR/70/162 | Letter from Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora VII. The early embryonic stages of Peripatopsis, and some general considerations concerning the morphology and phylogeny of the arthropoda' by Sidnie Milana Manton to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 30 January 1948 |
| RR/70/164 | Letter from Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'Studies on the Onychophora VII. The early embryonic stages of Peripatopsis, and some general considerations concerning the morphology and phylogeny of the arthropoda' by Sidnie Milana Manton to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 January 1948 |