Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first professor at Michigan University was the late Dr. Asa Gray, the noted botanist of Harvard.- Princetonian...
...like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight into the laws of the physical world. Darwin lost himself in the mazes of the first truths. Darwin had agnostic companions while Asa Gray had theistic companions. Huxley has been more influenced by Darwin than...
...five years of his connection with the University. He said that even from the beginning of this period he was recognized as one of the rising men in the scientific world, and that later by his indefatigable labors on the flora of America, he became recognized as the leading botanist of his generation. Dr. McKenzie was peculiarly fitted for his task of giving an estimate of this naturalist's life. He was his friend and ardent admirer, and, thoroughly understanding and appreciating him, was able to throw much valuable light on the character of this gentle and learned...
...Gray, the celebrated botanist, died Monday afternoon, after a lingering illness, at his residence in Cambridge...
...with Dr. John F. Trowbridge in Bridgewater, N. Y., and was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the western district of New York in 1831. He soon after left his practice and began the study of botany with Dr. John Torrey. In 1834 he was appointed botanist to the United States exploring expedition sent out under the command of Captain Charles Wilkes, but in consequence of the delay of that enterprise resigned the post in 1837. He was elected professor of botany in the new University of Michigan, but he declined the chair and accepted...