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and that he had named it [[underlined]] Oxybelis manni [[/underlined]]. So you can imagine what a thrill that was for a kid just starting out.

HENSON: That was the first species that got named for him, right?

MANN: Yes, that was the first thing that was named for him.

HENSON: And he was still in undergraduate school.

MANN: I have that letter still.

HENSON: You do have that letter?

MANN: Yes, you can put it in the archives.

HENSON: Yes. You knew Dr. [John Enos] Graf at entomology. What was he doing there then?

MANN: What was his specialty? It wasn't ants. I'm sorry, I've forgotten what his specialty was because he didn't really stay with it awfully long; he went into administrative work. [truck crop insects]

HENSON: Now, he may even have been in administrative work at that point. Was he in Washington all the time?

MANN: Yes.

HENSON: He wasn't out in the field as much?

MANN: Dr. Mann was theoretically six months in the tropics and then six months here identifying his collections.