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...Asa Gray, the celebrated botanist, died Monday afternoon, after a lingering illness, at his residence in Cambridge...
...Asa Gray was born in Paris, Oneida County, New York, November 18, 1810, and was consequently 77 years of age. He received his early education in the Clinton Grammar School and at the Fairfield Academy, after which he began the study of medicine with Dr. John F. Trowbridge in Bridgewater, N. Y., and was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the western district of New York in 1831. He soon after left his practice and began the study of botany with Dr. John Torrey. In 1834 he was appointed botanist to the United States exploring expedition sent...
...with great sorrow that we hear Professor Asa Gray's condition is growing worse...
...regret to say that Prof. Asa Gray's illness still continues to be very serious...
...Asa Gray, the famous botanist and professor of natural history in Harvard, is very ill at his home on Garden street having recently sustained a paralytic stroke...