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Dupree's treatment transcends Gray as an individual and depicts, in fascinating detail, the alarms and excursions of 19th-century biology... This biography of Asa Gray is definitive.
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9780801837418
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Early Years
Chapter 2. From Medicine to Science
Chapter 3. Government as a Patron
Chapter 4. Envoy to Europe
Chapter 5. Last Years of Uncertainty
Chapter 6. The Professor at Cambridge
Chapter 7
Chapter 1. Early Years
Chapter 2. From Medicine to Science
Chapter 3. Government as a Patron
Chapter 4. Envoy to Europe
Chapter 5. Last Years of Uncertainty
Chapter 6. The Professor at Cambridge
Chapter 7. The Pattern of a Young Man's Thoughts and Deeds
Chapter 8. "Where Plants Have No Latin Names"
Chapter 9. The Personal Revolution of 1848
Chapter 10. An American in World Botany
Chapter 11. The Waking Hours of an Overloaded Botanist
Chapter 12. Gray's Mind and "The Threat of Agassiz"
Chapter 13. Darwin and Japan—The Summit of Gray's Career
Chapter 14. The Immediate Impact of the Origin of Species
Chapter 15. The Crest of the Darwinian Debate
Chapter 16. Years of War
Chapter 17. Transition from Professor to Patriarch
Chapter 18. A Theist in the Age of Darwin
Chapter 19. The Patriarch of New Plant Sciences
Chapter 20. Last Days, 1886–1888
Note on the Sources
Notes
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