Word: asa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...volume has been issued in memory of Dr. Asa Gray, containing the funeral sermon by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D.; the order of funeral services in Appleton chapel, February 2; the selections from the Bible, read by Francis G. Peabody, D. D.; the hymn sung, and Dr. Peabody's address at the college vesper service...
...first professor at Michigan University was the late Dr. Asa Gray, the noted botanist of Harvard.- Princetonian...
Professor Asa Gray by his will made the following bequests to Harvard College: "All copyrights of books of which he was the author, all engravings of plants, pictures of trees, herbs, etc., and all portraits of botanists." These are to be left in the possession of his wife during life, when they shall go to the herbarium of the college...
...President White, of Cornell, has been chosen to succeed Prof. Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute...
...philosophy of evolution concerns a question of progress. What we wish is that Darwinism shall account not merely of the survival of the fittest, but also for the arrival of the fittest, and that it has not given us yet. Asa Gray said years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany...