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John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828).
Mar 7, 2023 · Learn about John Edward Gray, an English zoologist who worked with Charles Darwin on barnacles and other crustaceans. See his portrait and a plate from his monograph on Cirripedia.
John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) studied medicine in London, and became an English zoologist. Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum from 1840 until Christmas 1874. That was before the natural history holdings were split off to be the Natural History Museum.
John Edward Gray (1800-1875), naturalist, was born on 12 February 1800 at Walsall, Staffordshire, England, the second son of Samuel Frederick Gray. He began to study for the medical profession but abandoned it and took up zoology.
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Mar 4, 2024 · John Edward Gray (1800-1875) was a British zoologist and the Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London for 35 years. He named many cetacean species, genera, subfamilies, and families and published several catalogues of the museum collections.
Feb 29, 2012 · John Edward Gray was a major figure in zoology in the middle of the 19th Century. An annotated bibliography of his mol-luscan publications is given with all works collated and dated, with questions of authorship discussed.
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Nov 1, 2006 · John Edward Gray is a thirty-year military career veteran, beginning in World War II when he volunteered at seventeen as a Marine. He served on the USS Maryland as an anti-aircraft gunner in five campaigns against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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