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Asa Gray   /ˈɑsə greɪ/   Listen
Asa Gray

noun
1.
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).  Synonym: Gray.





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"Asa Gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... to evolution, see the Essay on Classification, vol. i, 1857, as regards Lamark, and vol. iii, as regards Darwin; also Silliman's Journal, July 1860; also the Atlantic Monthly, January 1874; also his Life and Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 647; also Asa Gray, Scientific Papers, vol. ii, p. 484. A reminiscence of my own enables me to appreciate his deep ethical and religious feeling. I was passing the day with him at Nahant in 1868, consulting him regarding ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White


Words linked to "Asa Gray" :   phytologist, plant scientist, botanist, gray


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