Asa Gray correspondence files of the Gray Herbarium

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Asa Gray correspondence files of the Gray Herbarium

1820-1931

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This collection, approximately 1820-1904, includes the personal correspondence of Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, official correspondence of other Herbarium staff, and a small amount of correspondence of noted botanists who were not affiliated with Harvard. Gray correspondence contains letters from several of the most distinguished European and American scientists of the 19th century, including George Bentham, Charles Darwin, Joseph Henry, Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Jackson Hooker, and John Torrey. Letters include important biographical information and also document the early history of botany in the United States. The Darwin correspondence contains a letter to Gray establishing Darwin's precedence in developing a theory of natural selection. Selected letters of Asa Gray were published in: Gray, Jane Loring, ed. Letters of Asa Gray (1893).

12 linear feet (1 file cabinet labeled H1, 3 flat oversize boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676654

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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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Often called the “Father of American Botany,” Asa Gray was instrumental in establishing systematic botany as a field of study at Harvard University and, to some extent, in the United States. His relationships with European and North American botanists and collectors enabled him to serve as a central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America. He also served as a link between American and European botanical sciences. Gray regularly reviewed new Euro...

Treat, Mary, 1830-1923

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Mary Treat (7 September 1830 – 11 April 1923 in Pembroke, New York) was a naturalist and correspondent of Charles Darwin. Treat's contributions to both botany and entomology were extensive: six species of plants and animals were named after her, including an amaryllis, Zephyranthes treatae, an oak gall wasp Bellonocnema treatae and three ant species Aphaenogaster mariae, Aphaenogaster treatae, and Dolichoderus mariae. ...