Background
Gray was born in 1787 at Greenwich Hospital, where her father, Lieutenant Henry Smith, Registered Nurse, was then resident.
Gray was born in 1787 at Greenwich Hospital, where her father, Lieutenant Henry Smith, Registered Nurse, was then resident.
Between 1842 and 1874 she published privately five volumes of etchings, entitled Figures of Molluscan Animals for the use of Students, and she mounted and arranged most of the Cuming collection of shells in the British Museum. She was also much attached to the study of algæ, arranging many sets for presentation to schools throughout the country so as to encourage the pursuit of this subject. Similarly, he named two species of lizards in her honor: Calotes maria and Calotes emma.
He also had a bronze medallion struck in 1863, bearing both their portraits, a copy of which is in the possession of the Linnean Society.