1887-88.] Professor Asa Gray. 349 



societies, either as an active foreign, honorary, or correspond- 

 ing member. He was made M.D. in 1831 by the College of 

 Medicine and Surgery at Fairfield, N. Y. ; an M. A. in 1 844, 

 and an LL.D. in 1875, by Harvard University. During his 

 last trip to Europe, in 1887, the University of Cambridge 

 conferred on him the degree of D.Sc, that of Oxford D.C.L., 

 and that of Edinburgh, LL.I). He became Fellow of the 

 American Academy in 1841, and its president from 1863 to 

 1873. He was made a foreign member of the Linnaean 

 Society in 1850. He w^as elected a corresponding member 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 

 1852, and a corresponding member of the Academy of 

 Science of the Institute of France in 1878. 



The following is a list of Asa Gray's chief works : — 



Mineralogy of Jeflferson and St Lawrence Counties (X.Y.), in 

 SiUiman's Journal for 1834-36. 



First Century of !N'orth American Gratniiieae and Cyperaceae ; 

 second century issued, but work not completed. 1833. 



A Monograph of the North American Ehyncosporefe; and, A 

 Notice of some New, Rare, or otherwise Interesting Plants from the 

 Northern and Western Portions of the State of New York, New 

 York Lyceum Nat. Hist., 1856. 



Elements of Botany. 1836. 



Synoptical Flora of North America, in conjunction with Dr Torrey, 

 Vol. I., parts 1 and 2, 1838 ; parts 3 and 4, 1840. Vol II., part 1, 

 1841; part 2, 1842; part 3, 1843, — after Dr Gray had gone to 

 Cambridge. 



The Botanical Text-Book, 1842. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th ed., 1845, 

 '50, '53, '57. Vol. 1. enlarged under the same title, but with the 

 sub-heading Structural Botany or Organogra]3hy on the basis of 

 Morphology, tcith Principles of Taxonomy and Phytograj^hy, and a 

 Glossary, 1879. Vol. II. Physiological Botany, by Prof. Geo. L. 

 Goodale, 1883. (Vol. III., on Cryptogamic Botany, and Vol. IV., 

 on Natural Orders, are yet to be completed.) 



Chloris Boreali Americana, selected chiefly from those in cultiva- 

 tion at Botanical Garden, Harvard University, 1st Decade. 1846. 



Genera Americse Borealis Orientalis Illustrata. Two volumes 

 issued, with 186 plates, but would have taken ten volumes to com- 

 plete on the same scale. 



Botany for Young People and Common Schools : — Part I. How 

 Plants Grow. 1858. Part II. How Plants Behave. 1872. 



