Gray, George Robert (1808-1872)

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Robert Gray FRS (July 8, 1808 - May 6, 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.

George Gray's most important publication was his Genera of Birds (1844-49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references.

PUBLICATIONS

• Gray, G. R. 1832. [Untitled. Camptognatha testacea, attributed to Gray.]. P. 516 in: Griffith, E. and others. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith, F.L.S., A.S., and others. Volume the Fifteenth [= Class Insecta

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