Guide to the Papers of Sidnie Milana Manton (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2842
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Manton, Sidnie Milana, 1902-1979
- Title
- Papers of Sidnie Milana Manton (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 27 May 1957 - 9 July 1987
- Collection Number
- M2842
- Extent
- 35 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with other scientists concerning their work, including R.W. Taylor's appointment as ant taxonomist at CSIRO, and D.T. Anderson's application for Readership at Sydney University. Manton's letters are included. Correspondents include Don T. Anderson and R.W. Taylor.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the British Museum (Natural History), London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1993 (AJCP Reel: M2842). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Formerly known as British Museum (Natural History), the Museum Natural History Museum changed its name in 1992.
Existence and Location of Originals
Library and Archives, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, England.
For further information see Natural History Museum Library and Archives catalogue [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/library-and-archives.html].
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2340234] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Subjects
Anderson, Don T.; Australia; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; CSIRO; Great Barrier Reef Expedition; Great Britain; Manton, Sidnie M.; Taylor, R.W.; University of Sydney
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 307, pp. 114-115.
Biographical / Historical
Sidnie Manton was born in London on 4 May 1902, and was educated in Kensington and at St Pauls School. She entered Girton College, Cambridge in 1921, and read for the Natural Sciences Tripos. Sidnie Manton did research at Imperial College, London and then back in Cambridge, where she became University demonstrator in comparative anatomy. She visited Australia in 1928, and spent four months with the Great Barrier Reef expedition at Low Isles. Dr Manton married John P.Harding in 1935, and moved to London soon after. She joined the staff of King's College, London, and became Reader in 1949. During her retirement she worked as an Honourary Associate at the Natural History Museum. Sidnie Manton died on 2 January 1979.
Sidnie Manton was an authority on the arthropods, and in particular on their embryology, modes of locomotion, feeding, and evolution. Her other passion was the breeding of cats.
Reference
Fryer, G. 1980. Sidnie Milana Manton. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: 26:327-356.
Item Descriptions
Series A. Correspondence, 27 May 1957 - 9 July 1987
35 itemsAll correspondence to Sidnie Manton unless noted.
Filmed selectively.
Don T. Anderson (Sydney, Plymouth), 20 October 1961 - 9 July 1987 (File)
Subjects include: Scoloplos; his work on crustacea; his application to Nuffield Foundation; news of other Australian scientists; his application for D Sc from London University; his application for chair of Biology at Sydney; Hinton's attitude to his application to Royal Society; paper on Peripatus; his election to Royal Society 'first zoological fellow for twenty years in Australia'; visit to England 1977. (292p. some incomplete letters.)
Includes:
24 February 1958. S.M. (King's College, London) to Registrar Sydney University re suitability of Dr Anderson for post in Department of Zoology.
May 1972. Letters from scientists in support of Anderson's candidature for Royal Society.
Studies on the Onychophore VIII by D.T. Anderson and S.M. Manton.
List of publications submitted for degree of DSc by D.T. Anderson.
Elizabeth Batham (Portobello), 1959-07-22; 1959-08-11; 1959-08-12 (File)
Re work at Portobello Marine Biological Station; application for Chair of Zoology at Canterbury University; her teaching experience. (9p.)
J.F. Foster (Association of Universities of British Commonwealth), 1957-06-20; 1957-06-26 (File)
Re J.C. Perryman's applications for lectureship in Zoology at Auckland and Queensland. (9p.)
Correspondence with R.H. Hackman (CSIRO, Canberra), 1978-01-21; 1978-04-21; 1978-05-05 (File)
Re Michael Locke's views on evolution, her health, his visit to England. (3p.)
G. Adrian Horridge (Canberra), June 1974 - 16 January 1976 (File)
Subjects include: publications; arthropod eyes; unavailability of literature in Canberra. (29p.)
S.M. Manton to McCredie, 20 September 1967 (File)
In support of Anderson; includes list of publications.
L.C. Birch (Sydney) to Norman H. Olver (Carlton), 5 November 1964 (File)
Supporting application for grant for D.T. Anderson from Nuffield Foundation. (6p., copy)
G.W. Paton (Vice Chancellor, Melbourne University), 7 September 1964 (File)
Re candidature of G. Burnstock for Chair of Zoology, encloses his C.V. and list of publications. (6p.)
Correspondence with Judith Perryman (Otago University), 4 June 1959 - 9 May 1960 (File)
Subjects include: publishing her research; lecturing and taking field courses at Otago University; instituting tutorials; visit to Doubtful Sound; Conchostraca in New Zealand. (14p.)
Correspondence with Pat Ralph (Wellington), 1959-06-08; 1959-09-07 (File)
Subjects include: work on Tetraplatia; increase in number of students in Zoology Department at Victoria University; publishing his work in England. (18p., faint carbons)
J. Eric Smith (Plymouth), 1973-10-15; 1974-03-20 (File)
In support of D.T. Anderson's application to Royal Society 'His book is clearly one of the great contributions of our time'.
D.R. Stoddart (Cambridge), 2 March 1976 (File)
Agreeing on terminology usage; geology of Australian coast.
R.W. Taylor (CSIRO, Canberra), 24 August 1967 - 20 October 1977 (File)
Subjects include: his appointment as Ant Taxonomist at CSIRO; work on Symperipatus; work with David Blest at ANU. (7p.)
S.M. Manton to Mrs Tiegs (n.pl.), 8 December 1970 (File)
Thanking her for book on Australia; D.T. Anderson 'the most able student I have ever had'; her plans to bring the 1958 review up to date. (poor carbon copy)
S.M. Manton to Turbott, 29 August 1959 (File)
In support of Dr E. Batham's application; her work establishing Portobello Marine Station.