Gray, Asa
educator, botanist, author, was born Nov. 18, 1810, in Paris, N. Y.
He was professor at Harvard university in 1842-88, and was in charge of the botanical garden at Cambridge. He is the author of Elements of Botany, now called Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination of Darwin's Origin of Species; Darwiniana; Natural Science and Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedi-- tion; and Scientific Papers selected by C.
S. Sargent. He died Jan. 30, 1888, in Cambridge, Mass.