Author:Asa Gray

Asa Gray
(1810–1888)

Asa Gray

Works

• A Natural System of Botany (1837) (external scan)
• Conversations on gardening: with incidental notes on natural history (1838) (external scan)
• A Flora of North America I & II. (1838–1843) with John Torrey
• Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive (1848) with William Starling Sullivant (external scan)
• Genera florae Americae boreali-orientalis illustrata. The genera of the plants of the United States illustrated by figures and analyses from nature with Isaac Sprague (1848) vol 1, vol 2
• Plantæ Wrightianæ Texano–Neo-Mexicanæ: An Account of a Collection of Plants made by Charles Wright, A. M. in an Expedition from Texas to New Mexico in the summer and autumn of 1849 1&2 (1852) with Charles Wright
• First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology (1857) (external scan)
• Botany for young people and common schools

• How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany (1858) (transcription project)
• How Plants Behave (1872) (start transcription)
• Botany for young people and common schools: a simple introduction to structural botany (1881) (external scan) , part 2

• Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861) (external scan)
• Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology (1862) (external scan)
• Gray's lessons in botany and vegetable physiology (1873) (external scan)

(revised) The elements of botany for beginners and for schools (1887) (external scan)

• Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism (1876) (external scan)
• Gray's Botanical Textbook I (external scan) & II. (1879) (external scan)
• "The Vegetation of the Rocky Mountain Region, and A Comparison With That of Other Parts of the World" in the Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories VI (1): 1–77 (1880) with Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Natural science and religion (1880) (external scan)
• The vegetation of the Rocky Mountain region, and a comparison with that of other parts of the world with Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1881) (external scan)
• "The Origin of Cultivated Plants". Science 1 (1): 12-14. (1883)
• Gray's School and Field Book of Botany (1887) (external scan)
• Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae vol I, pt. II, and II, pt. I] (2 ed.) (1888) collection
• Scientific papers of Asa Gray (1889) vol 1, vol 2
• Letters of Asa Gray (1893) vol 1, vol 2

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "On the Derivation of American Plants" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (October 1872)
• "Estimate of Darwin" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (August 1874)

Works about Gray

• "Sketch of Prof. Gray" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (August 1872)
• "Asa Gray" in The Botanical Gazette, Vol. 11, January 1886
• "Gray, Dr. Asa," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Gray, Asa," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Gray, Asa," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gray, Asa," in American Medical Biographies, (ed.) by Howard A. Kelly & Walter L. Burrage, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co. (1920)
• Review of his Botanical Series in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 2, number 3, August 1858