George Robert Gray
See also: Gray
George Robert Gray , born the July 8th 1808 and dead the May 6th 1872, is a zoologist and a British writer .
He is the youngest brother of John Edward Gray. Their father is Samuel Frederick Gray (1766-1828), a pharmacologist and a famous botanist at his time.
Gray directs the department of Ornithologie of the British Museum of London during 41 years.
The most important publication of George Gray is Genera off Birds (1844-1849), illustrated by David William Mitchell (1813-1859) and Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) Joseph Wolf (1820-1899), made up of 46 000 references. It becomes one of the basic works of the ornithologists during one long period.
It enters to British Museum like assistant-conservative of the department of Zoologie in 1831. It starts by carrying out catalogs of Insecte S. It off publishes in 1833 its Entomology Australia (1833) and takes part in the entomological part of the edition in English language of the Animal kingdom of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). It makes appear Zoology off the Voyage off HMZ Erebus & Terror, Birds off New Zealand of 1846 with 1875 whose end of the publication is completed by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909).
It is before a whole man of museum and almost does not have experience of ground.
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