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Asa Gray (1810-1888)
Introduction to structural and systematic botany and vegetable physiology
New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, 1864, c. 1857

Asa Gray has been called the most important American botanist of the 19th century. He was responsible for the unification of taxonomy of American plants, and published numerous volumes on American botany. The donation of his plant and book collections to Harvard University caused the creation of the Botany Department there. Gray was a regular correspondent with Charles Darwin and arranged for publication of Origin of Species in the United States. Darwin dedicated his book, Forms of Flowers, to Gray. Featured here is Gray's Introduction to structural and systematic botany...

Figures 590-598 on page 319

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