Person Gray; Asa (1810 - 1888) Gray Asa 1810 - 1888 American Male Sauquoit, New York, USA 08 or 18 November 1810 Cambridge, Massachusetts 30 January 1888

Botany 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) Foreign Member 27/11/1873 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. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 8 or 18 Nov 1810 - 30 Jan 1888 NA6527 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/7504476 af783bd2-656c-456a-bf14-190a73658909