Asa Gray

Asa Gray
Asa Gray (1810–1888) was a prominent American botanist and writer, often regarded as one of the most influential botanists in the 19th century. He was a close correspondent and supporter of Charles Darwin, helping to introduce and defend the theory of evolution in the United States. Gray wrote several important botanical works, including "Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States" and "Gray's New Manual of Botany," which were widely used for plant classification. His extensive research on plant distribution and taxonomy contributed greatly to the field of botany and the understanding of plant evolution.

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by: Asa Gray
Section I. INTRODUCTORY. 1. Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants. 2. Plants may be studied as to their kinds and relationships. This study is Systematic Botany. An enumeration of the kinds of vegetables, as far as known, classified according to their various degrees of resemblance or difference, constitutes a general System of plants. A similar... more...

by: Asa Gray
These papers are now collected at the request of friends and correspondents, who think that they may be useful; and two new essays are added. Most of the articles were written as occasion called for them within the past sixteen years, and contributed to various periodicals, with little thought of their forming a series, and none of ever bringing them together into a volume, although one of them (the... more...