William Montana Mann (1886–1960) was an American entomologist and the fifth director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. from 1925 until 1956. In 1921, he traveled on the

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to the Amazon. In 1926, he married Lucile Quarry Mann. The two worked together as a team to improve and promote the zoo, including going on expeditions around the world to collect live specimens for the zoo's collection. He graduated from

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Legacy

Mann is commemorated in the scientific names of four species and subspecies of reptiles: '' Amphisbaena manni'', '' Lepidodactylus manni'', '' Letheobia manni'', '' Lygodactylus manni'' and '' Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima manni''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Mann", p. 167). Mann is also honored in the specific name of the fish '' Gambusia manni''.

Publications

*Mann, W. M. 1912.

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in Brazilian ants. Psyche (Camb.) 19: 36-41 912-IV*Mann, W. M. 1915. A new form of a southern ant from Naushon Island, Massachusetts. Psyche (Camb.) 22: 51 *Mann, W. M. 1916. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The ants of Brazil. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 60: 399-490 *Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63: 273-391 *Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 403-439 *Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 64: 401-499 *Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 61: 1-54 *Mann, W. M. 1923. Two new ants from Bolivia. (Results of the Mulford Biological Exploration. - Entomology.). Psyche (Camb.) 30: 13-18 *Mann, W. M. 1924a. Notes on Cuban ants. Psyche (Camb.) 31: 19-23 *Mann, W. M. 1925a. New beetle guests of army ants. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 15: 73-77 *Mann, W. M. 1925b. Ants collected by the University of Iowa Fiji-New Zealand Expedition. Stud. Nat. Hist. Iowa Univ. 11(4 4: 5-6 *Mann, W. M. 1926. Some new neotropical ants. Psyche (Camb.) 33: 97-107 *Mann, W. M. 1929. Notes on Cuban ants of the genus Macromischa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 31: 161-166 *Mann, W. M. 1931. A new ant from Porto Rico. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 21: 440-441 *Mann, W. M. 1935. Two new ants collected in quarantine. Psyche (Camb.) 42: 35-37 *Mann, W. M. 1950. Ant Hill Odyssey, Little, Brown and Company, Boston *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1914. The ants of Haiti. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: 1-61 *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 60: 167-174 *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942a. ntitled. Pseudomyrma picta Stitz var. heterogyna Wheeler and Mann, var. nov. pp. 172–173 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262. *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942b. ntitled. Pseudomyrma triplarina (Weddell) var. rurrenabaquensis Wheeler & Mann, var. nov. pp. 188–189 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262. *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942c. ntitled. Allomerus decemarticulatus Mayr subsp. novemarticulatus Wheeler & Mann, subsp. nov. P. 199 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262. *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942g. ntitled. Azteca brevicornis Mayr var. boliviana Wheeler & Mann, var. nov. P. 225 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262. *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942h. ntitled. Azteca ulei Forel var. gagatina Wheeler and Mann var. nov. P. 246 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262. *Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942i. ntitled. Myrmelachista (Decamera) schumanni Emery var. cordincola Wheeler & Mann, var. nov. P. 255 in: Wheeler, W. M. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 90:1-262.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, William M. American entomologists Zoo directors 1886 births 1960 deaths Washington State University alumni Harvard University alumni 20th-century American zoologists