| Authorised form of name | Gray; Asa (1810 - 1888) |
| Dates | 1810 - 1888 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Sauquoit, New York, USA |
| Date of birth | 08 or 18 November 1810 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Date of death | 30 January 1888 |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
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)
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 27/11/1873 |
| Sources | Sources:
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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/7504476 |
| Royal Society code | NA6527 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1873/19 | Gray, Asa: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/3/207 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Hooker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 April 1889 |
| NLB/46/161 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Asa] Gray, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 June 1912 |
| MC/10/54 | Letter from Asa Gray, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Professor A W [Alexander William] Williamson, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 December 1873 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| HS/9/121 | Letter, from Asa Gray to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass. | 4 August 1846 |
| HS/9/120 | Incomplete letter, from Asa Gray to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge, Mass. | 26 January 1863 |