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tinguished honors. His first degree was an M. D. in i8. 

 the College of Medicine and Surgery, at Fairfield, N. Y. 

 others, were an A.M. in 1844 and a LL.D. in 1875, both 

 from Harvard University, He was elected a Fellow of the Amer- 

 ican Academy in 1841 and was its President from 1863 to 1873. 

 In 1850 he became a Foreign Member of the Linnaean Society 

 of London and, in 1852, a Corresponding Member of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1878 he was 



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the Institute of France. 



Dr. Gray made three trips to California, the first one in i8y2. 

 The next one lasted nearly four months, beginning in July, 1877. 

 Mrs. Gray and Sir J. D, Hooker were of the party. They trav- 

 elled a good deal in Colorado and the Sierra Nevada Mts., going 

 as far north as Mt. Shasta in Northern California. The third 

 trip was in 1885, by way of New Orleans, New Mexico and 

 Southern California, as far north as Chico. From El Paso the 

 party made a detour into Mexico. They left in February, return- 

 ing early in May. Dr. Gray visited the Alleghany Mts. four times, 

 the first trip being in the summer of 1 841, when he visited 

 Grandfather and Roan Mts. in North CaroHna. On the second 

 trip, Jn 1843, he was accompanied by Mr. W. S. Sullivant of 

 Ohio, and on the third trip, in 1876, by Mrs. Gray, Mr J. H. 

 Redfield, Mr. Wm. M. Canby and Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Engel- 

 mann. On the last occasion, in 1879, a large party was formed, 

 who visited Roan Mt. and other localities and, especially, the 

 interesting spot where Sliortia galacifoUa, * with its romantic 

 history which identifies the little plant so closely with Dr. Gray, 

 still grows. 



After Dr. Gray's last return from Europe, he pressed on 

 with renewed zeal, to complete Vol. I, Part i , of the Synoptical 

 Flora, which was to embrace the Polypetalse. The work had 

 been far advanced already through his own labors and those of 

 his able co-workers. Dr. Sereno Watson and others. Much had 

 been done, but much remained to be done. All the botanists of 

 North America, in particular, were anxiously w aiting and praying 



•Gray in Am. Journ., Jan., 1872, and Dec, 1878. Wild Flowers of No. Amer., 

 by Geo. L. Goodale, M. D. with colored plate, Vol. I, p. 107. 



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