Wayne Eyer Manning (December 4, 1899 – February 8, 2004) was an American horticulturist and

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Biography

In 1920, Manning obtained his

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s from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

. In 1926 he received his Ph.D. from

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. His dissertation research was based on the study of the floral anatomy of

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. Manning was a professor at Cornell for one year and then began teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He then became a professor at

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where he taught from 1928 until 1941. In 1945, he began teaching at

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. He remained at this university until his retirement in 1968. He published more than 40 publications mainly on the subject of

Some publications

* 1926. ''The Morphology and Anatomy of the Flowers of the Juglandaceae.'' Ed. Cornell Univ. 264 pp.

Honors

Eponimia

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) '' Alfaroa manningii'' LeónCeiba 4: 44, fig. 1953. (GCI)

References

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