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  Asa Gray - LoveToKnow 1911 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
GRAY, ASA (1810-1888), American botanist, was born at Paris, Oneida county, N.Y., on the 18th of November 1810.
The greater part of Gray's strictly scientific labour was devoted to a Flora of North America, the plan of which originated with his early teacher and associate, John Torrey of New York.
Nothing of what Gray did for the botanical department of the university has been lost; on the contrary, his labours were so well directed that everything he originated and developed has been enlarged, improved and placed on stable foundations.
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 Charles Darwin and Asa Gray Discuss Teleology and Design
Gray was not yet ready to deny their permanence, but hybrids and other observations were beginning to trouble him.
Gray was never an uncritical supporter, and there are many evidences in the correspondence between these two scientists that Gray was willing to challenge Darwin and disagree with some of his conclusions.
Gray, on the other hand, knew from Scripture the attributes of God, and therefore could accept the errors, evil, and suffering of Nature within the same theological context that he did for humans.
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Asa Gray, Botanist Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888) was an influential American botanist and collaborator of Charles Darwin.
Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive.
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 Library of the Gray Herbarium Archives
Asa Gray could be described as the person who established systematic botany at Harvard and, to some extent, in the United States.
Gray's ties with European botanists, developed through correspondence, exchange of specimens and visits to Europe, combined with his network of collectors in North America allowed him to serve as a sort of central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America.
Gray reviewed new European scientific works regularly in the American Journal of Science and Arts, and he was largely responsible for introducing Darwin's theory of natural selection in the United States.
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 Asa Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.
He was born in Sauquoit, New York in 1810, and became an M.D. in 1831 However, he relinquished medicine for botany, and in 1842 was appointed professor of natural history at Harvard University, a post he retained until 1873.
Corresponding with Charles Darwin, Gray was helpful in providing information for the development of Darwin's theory on The Origin of Species.
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 ASA GRAY (1810-1888) - Online Information article about ASA GRAY (1810-1888) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gray was a diligent writer of reviews of books on natural See also:
Darwin during the years in which Darwin was elaborating the doctrines that later became known as Darwinism.
From 1855 to 1875 Gray was both a keen critic and a sympathetic exponent of the Darwinian principles.
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 Asa gray - asa Lefalophodon: Asa Gray (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Lefalophodon: Asa Gray (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Not fully comfortable with selection, he argued that evolution was compatible with religious belief and slid towards theistic evolutionism.
A poor fund raiser, he still succeeded in establishing what became the Gray Herbarium.
With Engelmann dead, Gray selected William Trelease as first director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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 Primary Source: Asa Gray - from Darwiniana (1876)
Asa Gray (1810-1888) was a professor of natural science at Harvard University who corresponded with Darwin for four years.
In numerous speeches and articles, Gray applauded Darwin's scientific method and his startling conclusions.
He also insisted that Darwinian evolution did not conflict with Judeo-Christian beliefs; instead, he contended that God was responsible for evolutionary development.
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 Asa Gray — Infoplease.com
Severity of Gray Leaf Spot in Perennial Ryegrass as Influenced by Mowing Height and Nitrogen Level.(Statistical Data Included)
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