Background
He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.
biologist ornithologist Zoologist
He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.
He was educated at Merchant Taylor"s School.
George Gray"s most important publication was his Genera of Birds (1844-1849), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references. Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831. He began by cataloguing insects, and published an Entomology of Australia (1833) and contributed the entomogical section to an English edition of Georges Cuvier"s Animal Kingdom.
Gray described many species of Lepidoptera.
Gray"s original description of Gray"s grasshopper warbler, which was named for him, appeared in 1860. The specimen had been collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Moluccas.
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