RICHARD

See also:

• RICHARD MANT (1776–1848)

MANT (1776–1848)  , English divine, was born at Southampton on the 12th of February 1776, and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford . He was elected fellow of Oriel in 1798, and after taking orders held a curacy at Southampton (1802), and then the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex (181o) . In 1811 he was Hampton lecturer, in 1816 was made rector of St Botolph's, and in 1820 bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenoragh (Ireland) . In 1823 he was translated to Down and Connor, to which Dromore .was added in x842 . In connexion with the Rev . George D'Oyly he wrote a commentary on the whole Bible . Other works by him were the Psalms in an English Metrical Version (1842) and a History of the• Church of Ireland (1839–1841; 2 vols.) . MANTEGAllA, PAOLO (1831–1910), Italian physiologist and anthropologist, was born at Monza on the 3ist of October 1831 . After spending his student-days at the universities of Pisa and Milan, he gained his M.D. degree at Pavia in 1854 . After travel-ling in Europe, India and America, he practised. as a doctor in . the Argentine Republic and Paraguay . Returning to Italy in 1858 he was appointed surgeon at Milan Hospital and professor of general pathology at Pavia . In 1870 he was nominated professor of anthropology at the Instituto di Studii Superiori, Florence .

Here he founded the first Museum of Anthropology and

Ethnology in Italy, and later the Italian Anthropological Society . From 1865 to 1876 he was deputy for Monza in the Italian parliament, subsequently being elected to the senate . He became the object of bitter attacks on the ground of the extent to which he carried the practice of vivisection . His published works include Fisiologia del dolore (188o); Fisiologia dell' amore (1896); Elementid' igiene (1875); Fisonomia e mimica (1883); Le Estasi umane (1887) .