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See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
GRAY, See also:JOHN See also:EDWARD (1800–1875) , See also:English naturalist, See also:born at See also:Walsall, See also:Staffordshire, in ',Soo, was the eldest of the three sons of S. F. Gray, of that See also:town, druggist and writer on See also:botany, and author of the Supplement to the See also:Pharmacopoeia, &c., his grandfather being S. F. Gray, who translated the Philosophia Botanica of See also:Linnaeus for the Introduction to .Botany of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee (1715–1795). Gray studied at St See also:Bartholomew's and other hospitals for the medical profession, but at an See also:early See also:age was attracted to the pursuit of botany. He assisted his See also:father by See also:collecting notes on botany and See also:comparative See also:anatomy and See also:zoology in See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks's library at the See also:British Museum, aided by Dr W. E. Leach, assistant keeper, and the systematic synopsis of the Natural Arrangement of British See also:Plants, 2 vols., 1821, was prepared by him, his father See also:writing the See also:preface and introduction-only. In consequence of his application for member-See also:ship of the Linnaean Society being rejected in 1822, he turned to the study of zoology, writing on zoophytes, shells, See also:Mollusca and Papilionidae, still aided by Dr Leach at the British Museum. In See also:December 1824 he obtained the See also:post of assistant in that institution; and from that date to December 1839, when J. G. See also:Children retired from the keepership, he had so zealously applied himself to the study, See also:classification and improvement of the See also:national collection of zoology that he was selected as the fittest See also:person to be entrusted with its See also:charge. Immediately on his See also:appointment as keeper, he took in See also:hand the revision of the systematic arrangement of the collections; scientific catalogues followed in rapid See also:succession; the See also:department was raised in importance; its poverty as well as its See also:wealth became known, and whilst increased grants, donations and exchanges made See also:good many deficiencies, See also:great See also:numbers of students, See also:foreign as well as English, availed themselves of its resources to enlarge the knowledge of zoology in all its branches. In spite of numerous obstacles, he worked up the department, within a few years of his appointment as keeper, to such a See also:state of excellence as to make it the See also:rival of the cabinets of See also:Leiden, See also:Paris and See also:Berlin; and later on it was raised under his management to the dignity of the largest and most See also:complete zoological collection in the See also:world. Although seized with See also:paralysis in 187o, he continued to See also:discharge the functions of keeper of zoology, and to contribute papers to the See also:Annals of Natural See also:History, his favourite See also:journal,and to the transactions of a few of the learned See also:societies; but at See also:Christmas 1874, having completed See also:half a See also:century of See also:official See also:work, he resigned See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and died in See also:London on the 7th of See also:March 1875.
Gray was an exceedingly voluminous writer, and his interests.were not confined to natural history only, for he took an active See also:part in questions of public importance of his See also:day, such as slave emancipation, See also:prison discipline, abolition of imprisonment for See also:debt, sanitary and municipal organizations, the decimal See also:system, public See also:education, See also:extension of the opening of museums, &c. He began to publish in 182o, and continued till the See also:year of his See also:death.
The titles of the books, See also:memoirs and See also:miscellaneous papers written by him, accompanied by a few notes, fill a privately printed See also:list of 56 See also:octavo pages with 1162 entries.
End of Article: GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
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