Word: gray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gray Herbarium, situated in the Botanic Garden, is now regarded as the safest, most conveniently arranged, and most fully equipped herbarium building in the world, it is stated in the article on the Herbarium to appear in the next issue of the University Guide in April...
...library of the Herbarium, augmented by gifts and purchases for many years, now contains more than 35,000 selected volumes and pamphlets. It also contains several bibliographical card catalogues of notable extent and scientific importance. Dr. Gray's collection of autograph letters of noted botanists, numbering more than 1100, and accompanied by portrait engravings and photographs, was given to the library by Mrs. Gray...
...looked like the gray crinkled hide of an elephant. At night it was an arabesque pattern of vermilion, magenta, citron. Then the top of the wall would curl like a malevolent phosphorus wave. With a crash as of metallic surf it would topple, advance, cool, form another wall. For some reason the lava moved more swiftly at night. Even from Messina, at the northern tip of Sicily, it could be seen slipping down Etna, like a tiny blazing snake...
Professor James Gray of Cambridge University, England, will address the geological Club in the geological lecture room this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, on the subject "Ciliary Activity". The talk will be illustrated by Spring pictures...
Professor Gray is an authority on his as a means of animal movement, had has devised unusual methods for their study by the use of motion pictures...