Asa Gray, 1810-1888.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Botanists -- United States -- Biography
Description: Early years -- From medicine to science -- Government as patron -- Envoy to Europe -- Last years of uncertainty -- The professor at Cambridge -- The pattern of a young man's thoughts and deeds -- "Where plants have no Latin names"--The personal revolution of 1848 -- An American in world botany -- The waking hours of an overloaded botanist -- Gray's mind and "the threat of Agassiz" -- Darwin and Japan : the summit of Gray's career -- The immediate impact of the Origin of species -- The crest of the Darwinian debate -- Years of war -- Transition from professor to patriarch -- A theist in the age of Darwin -- The patriarch of new plant sciences -- Last days, 1886-1888.
Notes: "Notes on the sources": p. [423]-425. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [427]-476)