Asa Gray ( 1810 - 1888 )

Birth: Sauquoit, New York, USA (08 or 18 November 1810) Death: Cambridge, Massachusetts (30 January 1888) Research Field: Botany Education: Fairfield Medical School (graduated 1831) Career: Gave up medicine; Curator and Librarian, New York Lyceum of Natural History (1835); wrote 'Elements of botany'; one of the first to accept and defend natural selection; Professor of Natural History, Harvard (1842-1872); Director, Botanical Gardens, Cambridge, Massachusetts (to 1872) Membership: Foreign Member Election Date: 27/11/1873.