Word: asa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, editor of "Garden and Forest," is editing the miscellaneous scientific papers of Asa Gray. The first volume, which will appear in the spring, will contain the late professor's reviews of works in botany and related subjects between...
...university suffered severely the past year by the deaths of Asa Gray, professor of botany and a man of worldwide reputation; of Earnest Young, recently appointed professor of history, and of Robert Dickson Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board of overseers...
...willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely that the very extreme specialization may lead to too contrasted views in regard to other fields of inquiry than the one in which the student...
...Andrew D. White, Yale, '53, succeeds Professor Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
...edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, has appeared. It is of great interest as giving in a compact form information concerning the work of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers. A number of bequests are announced, notably that by Mrs. Ellen Gurney of $75,000 and that by Dr. Asa Gray of the copyrights of his books. Mention is made of the long and useful service of Professor Lovering, whose resignation is to take effect September 1, 1888. Besides the reports the Bulletin contains additions to the Harvard necrology as published in the Quinquennial Catalogue, a descriptive catalogue...