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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
The papers of Asa Gray, botanist and professor of natural history at Harvard University, were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1999.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Asa Gray is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Asa Gray are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Asa Gray Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Date | Event |
| 1810, Nov. 18 | Born, Sauquoit, N.Y. |
| 1825-1826 | Attended Fairfield Academy, Clinton, N.Y. |
| 1826-1831 | Attended Fairfield Academy College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York, Clinton, N.Y., receiving a medical degree |
| 1830 | Began to collect and exchange plants with John Torrey |
| 1836 | Published Elements of Botany in New York. New York: G. & C. Carvill and Co. |
| 1836-1838 | Member, U.S. Exploring expedition under command of Charles Wilkes |
| 1838-1843 | Professor of botany, University of Michigan, Detroit,
Mich. Published with John Torrey Flora of North America. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam. 2 vols. |
| 1842 | Appointed professor of natural history, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1847 | Published Manual of Botany of the Northern United States. Boston: L. Munroe and Co. |
| 1848 | Married Jane Lathrop Loring |
| 1858 | Published Botany for Young People and Common Schools. New York: Ivison Blakeman, Taylor, and Co. |
| 1873 | Retired, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., to work on revisions of his book on North American flora |
| 1876 | Published Darwiana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton and Co. |
| 1888, Jan. 30 | Died, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1893 | Posthumous publication of Letters of Asa Gray, edited by Jane Loring Gray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin |
The papers of Asa Gray (1810-1888), botanist and professor at Harvard College from 1842 to 1873, span the years 1840-1859 and consist chiefly of letters from Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray, to botanist Elizabeth Carrington Morris and her sister, Margaretta Hare Morris, a naturalist. Gray became an influential botanical taxonomist in America after he introduced a new system of classification based on biological similarity. Most of the correspondence between Gray and the Morris sisters is scientific and technical in nature and concerns botany and the natural sciences. Also included are letters to the Morrises from other prominent American scientists, including Louis Agassiz, Samuel Stehman Halderman, Thaddeus William Harris, and Benjamin Silliman, together with two undated articles possibly by the entomologist Thomas Say for the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
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| BOX 1 | Farlow, W. G., invitation from Asa Gray, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Ingham, Charles C., letter to unidentified Morris sister, 1856 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Morris, Elizabeth Carrington | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Correspondence from | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Gray, Asa, 1842-1859 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Gray, Jane Loring, 1856-1857 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Silliman, Benjamin (1816-1885), 1859 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Morris, Margaretta Hare | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Correspondence | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | From | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Agassiz, Louis, 1853, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1849, 1854 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Harris, Thaddeus William, 1850-1852 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Silliman, Benjamin (1816-1885), 1841 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | To Benjamin Hornor Coates, 1841 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Say, Thomas (1787-1834), two articles possibly by Say for the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, undated | ||||||||||||
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