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Asa Gray ForMemRS (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. [1] [2] His Darwiniana was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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.
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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; his position was the first at any U.S. institution to be exclusively devoted to botany.
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May 29, 2018 · Gray, Asa (1810–88) An American botanist and taxonomist who did much to popularize the study of botany and to expound, but also criticize, Darwin's evolutionary theory. In 1842, he was appointed Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University and founded the Gray Herbarium and a library.
Nov 10, 2018 · Asa Gray was born on November 18, 1810 (died in 1888), in Oneida County, New York. With seven younger siblings, Gray grew up working on the family’s farm and becoming an avid naturalist, especially interested in minerals. His interest in botany began while at school, causing his father to enroll him in a local medical school.
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.
May 22, 2023 · Gray, A. 1855. Plantæ Novæ Thurberianæ: The characters of some new genera and species of plants in a collection made by George Thurber, Esq., of the late Mexican Boundary Commission, chiefly in New Mexico and Sonora. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Science, new series Vol 5, part 2: 297–328.
