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Asa Gray, in token of the universal esteem of American Botanists." An accompanying silver salver had the inscription "Bearing the greetings of one hundred and eighty botanists of North America to Asa Gray on his 75th birthday, Nov. 18, 1885." Also received on his 75th birthday was a poem by James Russell Lowell:
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- January 30, 1888 (aged 77), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- November 18, 1810, Sauquoit, New York, U.S.
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Mar 8, 2024 · Asa Gray (born November 18, 1810, Sauquoit, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 1888, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American botanist whose extensive studies of North American flora did more than the work of any other botanist to unify the taxonomic knowledge of plants of this region. His most widely used book, Manual of the Botany of the ...
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Asa Gray may not be a household name for most people, but the “Father of American Botany” was a remarkable man. Gray was born in 1810. He began his career as a medical doctor but found that his true passion was for plants. He studied botany under John Torrey and became the first permanent professor at the new University of Michigan in 1838 ...
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May 29, 2018 · Gray, Asa. ( b. Sauquoit, New York, 18 November 1810; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30 January 1888) botany. Gray was the son of Moses Gray and Roxana Howard Gray, who had migrated from New England to upstate New York after the American Revolution. He began his education in local schools at Sauquoit and for a time attended an academy at nearby ...
Apr 28, 2011 · In Gray's paper, drafted and refined over late 1858 and early 1859, he accepted and employed, gingerly but quite clearly, Darwin's notion (as Darwin put it in his original letter of confession to ...
Asa Gray, (born Nov. 18, 1810, Sauquoit, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 30, 1888, Cambridge, Mass.), U.S. botanist. He received a medical degree from Fairfield Medical School, where he spent his spare time studying plant specimens. He collaborated with John Torrey (1796–1873) on Flora of North America (1838–43) and in 1842 joined the faculty at ...
Apr 1, 2005 · Asa Gray was born November 18, 1810 in Sauquat, New York. Apparently a fine student, he received a degree of doctor of medicine at the ripe old age of 21. His love of medicine was fleeting, as within a few years, he became far more interested in botany. He was fortunate at this time to start a friendship with John Torrey, a dominant botanist of ...
