| Authorised form of name | Manton; Sidnie Milana (1902 - 1979); zoologist |
| Other forms of name | Mrs John P |
| Other forms of surname | Harding |
| Dates | 1902 - 1979 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 1 Earls Court Square, London, England |
| Date of birth | 04 May 1902 |
| Place of death | London, England |
| Date of death | 02 January 1979 |
| Occupation | zoologist |
| Research field | Entomology |
| Marine biology |
| Zoology |
| 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).
Memberships:
FLS
Awards/Medals:
Montifiore Prize 1925
Linnean Gold Medal 1963
Frink Medal 1977 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| Proposer | Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell |
| James Gray |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin |
| John Stanley Gardiner |
| Stanley Kemp |
| Alister Clavering Hardy |
| Augustus Daniel Imms |
| Herbert Graham Cannon |
| William Thomas Calman |
| Relationships | Parents: George Sidney Frederick Manton, dental surgeon of London, and his wife, Milana Andele Terese d'Humy
Siblings: Irene Manton (FRS 1961)
Spouse: Dr John Philip Harding, later keeper of zoology, British Museum.
Children: One daughter, one adopted son; family descended from Charles Manton, chaplain to Charles II. |
| Published works | RCN R75373
RCN 19723
RCN 8846
RCN R83634
RCN R73310
RCN 19722
RCN 19724 |
| General context | Distinguished for her studies in invertebrate embryology and functional morphology.
Her work on the embryology of the Mysid crustacean, Hemimysis lamornae, is one of the most complete studies of arthropod embryology ever published.
Her subsequent analysis of the development of Nebalia has largely established the phylogenetic position of this classical form.
Her studies on Peripatus deal not only with its anatomy and early development but, in collaboration with other workers, with all its various physiological relationships.
Travelled widely on scientific expeditions and has worked also on corals and certain Hydrozoa. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| 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 |