Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...most famous men that has ever had any close connection with Harvard was the great botanist, Asa Gray. Although Dr. Gray was not a graduate of Harvard, his connection with the college has been so intimate, and his devotion to her so strong that he might fairly be called a Harvard man. He came here in 1842 when he was made Professor of Natural History. When he began his task he found the botanical collection hardly more than a small botanical garden. The work that he must have spent in building up his herbarium is shown by the fact that...
...what might he called a "natural" worker. He was the first to break away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...