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...Prof. Asa Gray has received an honorary degree from Cambridge (Eng.), University...
...Prof. Asa Gray will attend the coming meeting of the British Association at Manchester, England...
Over twenty-three million dollars has been contributed to the colleges of this country by twenty men. Three of these twenty - Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins, and Asa Packer - gave over fourteen million dollars. - Princetonian...
...friend advised him if there were any documents in proof of his own line of work at the time to publish them instantly. After much reflection and the conclusion that there were none to bring forward, Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm...
...Arthur Gilman on Watertown street, Cambridge, Dean G. Z. Gray presiding, the following officers were elected: President, James Russell Lowell; vice-presidents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, Charles W. Eliot, Stanton Blake, E. N. Horsford; secretary, Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Benjamin Vaughn; committee on plans, James R. Lowell, Asa Gray, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Van Brunt, John Trowbridge, W. P. P. Longfellow; board of directors, James Russell Lowell, Arthur Gilman, Benjamin Vaughn, William Eustis Russell, Francis C. Foster, James B. Ames, H. P. Walcott, William Lawrence, Samuel L. Montague, Alexander McKenzie, H. E. Scudder, George Zabriskie Gray, T. W. Higginson...