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ASA Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin Paperback - 1988

by A. Hunter Dupree

This authoritative biography of 19th-century botanist Asa Gray offers the first full-length interpretation of one of one of America's most important men of science.


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The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gray became the most persistent and effective American protagonist of Darwin's views. Yet at the same time, he believed that religion and Darwin's theory of natural selection could coexist. A. Hunter Dupree's authoritative biography offers the first full-length interpretation of one of America's most important scientists.

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The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gray became the most persistent and effective American protagonist of Darwin's views. Yet at the same time, he believed that religion and Darwin's theory of natural selection could coexist. A. Hunter Dupree's authoritative biography offers the first full-length interpretation of one of America's most important men of science.

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  • Title ASA Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin
  • Author A. Hunter Dupree
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint of 1959
  • Pages 536
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 1988-10-01
  • ISBN 9780801837418 / 0801837413
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 5.94 x 1.2 in (22.89 x 15.09 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Gray, Asa, Botanists - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88045434
  • Dewey Decimal Code 581.092

About the author

A. Hunter Dupree is George L. Littlefield Porfessor of History Emeritus at Brown University and research associate at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. He is also author of Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities and the editor of several other works.

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