THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



ASA GRAY 



Our friend and associate, Asa Gray, the eminent botanist 

 of America, the broad-minded student of nature, ended his 

 life of unceasing and fruitful work on the 30th of January 

 last. For thirty-five years he has been one of the editors of 

 this Journal, and for more than fifty years one of its contribu- 

 tors ; and through all his communications there is seen the pro- 

 found and always delighted student, the accomplished writer, 

 the just and genial critic, and as Darwin has well said, " the 

 lovable man." * 



Asa Gray was born on the eighteenth day of November, 

 1810, at Sauquoit, in the township of Paris, Oneida County, 

 New York, a place nine miles south of Utica. When a few 

 years old, his father moved to Paris Furnace, and established 

 there a tannery ; and the child, one account says, was put to 

 work feeding the bark-mill and driving the horse, and another, 

 riding the horse that ground the bark. "At six or seven he was 



tin the preparation of this sketch I have been much aided by the papers of 

 Prof. Goodale, Prof. Sargent and Prof. C. R. Barnes, the last in the Botanical 

 Gazette for January, 1886. 



Am. Joxjb. Scl— Third Series, Vol. XXXV, No. 207.— March, 1888. 

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