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Authorised form of nameGray; Asa (1810 - 1888)
Dates1810 - 1888
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthSauquoit, New York, USA
Date of birth08 or 18 November 1810
Place of deathCambridge, Massachusetts
Date of death30 January 1888
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
Fairfield Medical School (graduated 1831)
Career:
Gave up medicine; Curator and Librarian, New York Lyceum of Natural History (1835); wrote 'Elements of botany'; one of the first to accept and defend natural selection; Professor of Natural History, Harvard (1842-1872); Director, Botanical Gardens, Cambridge, Massachusetts (to 1872)
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election27/11/1873
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889 vol 46 pp xv-xviii signed by J D H
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 18 November 1810.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/7504476
CodeNA6527
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1873/19Gray, Asa: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/207Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Hooker, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1889
NLB/46/161Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Asa] Gray, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1912
MC/10/54Letter from Asa Gray, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Professor A W [Alexander William] Williamson, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society25 December 1873
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
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