collection in Europe. To insure its proper arrangement, lie recommended 

 the Trustees to publish printed systematic catalogues. The later ones 

 were not merely nominal lists, but contained descriptions of the objects, 

 thus forming a series of handbooks that have much accelerated the pro- 

 gress of zoological science, and have rendered the collections more readily 

 accessible to the student than in any other museum. If we understand 

 by the old Linnean school that class of naturalists whose knowledge 

 ranges over many or all branches of Natural History, and who distinguish 

 and arrange the objects rather with the aid of external than anatomical 

 characters, Dr. Gray was one of the most eminent and, perhaps, the last 

 of this school. The overwhelming material which he accumulated had to 

 be arranged, and there remained no time for investigating all the details 

 of internal structure. That his task was a laborious one may be seen 

 from the amount of work published by him, the Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers published by the Royal Society containing not less than twenty- 

 eight columns of titles of his papers, the number of which must consider- 

 ably exceed one thousand." 



In his private life Dr. Gray was distinguished by a generosity 

 and integrity of mind that commanded the esteem of a large 

 number of friends ; and though, from his hatred of anything 

 like sham and imposture, he may at times have expressed 

 himself strongly and given pain, no one was ever more ready to 

 do an act of kindness that condoned the offence he had given. 



From the " Gardeners' Chronicle." 

 The announcement of the death of John Edward Gray will 

 be received with universal regret among naturalists. Of late 

 years Dr. Gray has been much better known as a zoologist 

 than as a botanist. Nevertheless he began his career as a 

 botanist, and never entirely abandoned the amabilis scientia. 

 He also rendered considerable services to horticulture, on which 

 account some brief references to his career will not be out of 

 place, though naturally we shall make but little allusion to his 

 zoological work, extensive as that has been. 



The father of J. E. Gray, and of his scarcely less celebrated 

 brother, G. R. Gray, was known everywhere to the last gene- 

 ration of druggists as the author of a most useful supplement 

 to the "Pharmacopoeia." John Edward was destined for the 

 medical profession, but speedily devoted himself to botanical 



