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not much larger nor greatly raised, separated by several rows 
of convex scales; the occipital distinct, and larger than 
the surrounding scales, but small, elongate; a slight pit or 
depression on the region behind it. Two or three series of 
larger keeled scales on the superciliary space. Ear small, 
narrow, not much larger than the occipital. 
Scales of the back small, keeled; of the side elongate, oval, 
convex; of the belly larger than those of the back, keeled ; 
of the tail like those of the back and belly ; of the limbs also 
keeled. The hind limb reaches to the eye ; the fore limb the 
length of the side. The toes are not dilated. Goitre very 
large, extending nearly to the middle of the abdomen. 
Colour pale brown, variegated with darker, in the form of 
large rhombic spots, open in the middle, along each side of 
the median line of the back; dark spots and streaks also on 
the sides, head, and limbs. 
Specimens in the British Museum from Venezuela and 
Dominica. 
XXXVII.—Biographical Notice of the late Dr. Joun 
EDWARD GRAY. 
Tr is our painful duty this month to record the death on the 
7th ultimo of Dr. John Edward Gray, F.R.S. &c., who has 
been for the last seventeen years one of the Editors of this 
Journal. 
Dr. Gray was born at Walsall in the year 1800; so 
that at the time of his death he had just completed his 75th 
year. He was the son of Mr. 8. F. Gray, the author 
of the well-known ‘ Supplement to the Pharmacopceia,’ and 
the grandson of Mr. Samuel Gray, a seedsman in Pall Mall, 
who possessed considerable scientific knowledge, translated the 
‘ Philosophia Botanica’ of Linneeus for his friend Mr. Lee, 
of Hammersmith, and assisted him in the composition of his 
‘ Introduction to Botany,’ which first made known the labours 
of the great Swedish naturalist to English readers. Dr. Gray 
may thus be regarded as belonging to a family in which natural- 
history tastes were hereditary. 
According to his own account he was a weakly and ailing 
child, confined to his chair for eight months in the year, and 
never eating animal food. At a very early age he says he 
began the world, to provide for himself and help his family. 
He was originally intended for the profession of medicine ; but 
his studies were very early turned specially to natural history; 
