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John Edward Gray

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John Edward Gray

Born12 February 1800
Walsall, England
Died7 March 1875(1875-03-07) (aged 75)
London, England
Resting placeSt Mary's Church, Lewisham
Known forClassification of many cetacean species, genera, subfamilies, and families
Spouse
(m. 1826)
ParentSamuel Frederick Gray
RelativesGeorge Robert Gray (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsBritish Museum, Natural History Museum
Author abbrev. (botany)J.E.Gray
Author abbrev. (zoology)Gray or J. E. Gray
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John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The standard author abbreviation J.E.Gray is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1] The same is used for a zoological name.

Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world.

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Biography

Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing The Natural Arrangement of British Plants (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology.[2] He began his zoological career by volunteering to collect insects for the British Museum at age 15. He officially joined the Zoological Department in 1824 to help John George Children catalog the reptile collection. In some of his early articles, Gray adopted William Sharp Macleay's quinarian system for classifications of molluscs (1824), butterflies (1824), echinoderms (1825), reptiles (1825), and mammals (1825). In 1840, he took over Children's position as keeper of zoology, which he held for 35 years, publishing well over 1,000 papers. He named many cetacean species, genera, subfamilies, and families.[3]

During this period, he collaborated with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the noted natural history artist, in producing Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley. The menagerie at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool, founded by Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, at the Stanley ancestral seat, was one of the largest private menageries in Victorian England.

Gray married Maria Emma Smith in 1826. She helped him with his scientific work, especially with her drawings.

In 1833, Gray was a founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society.

Gray with his wife Maria Emma, 1863

Gray was a friend of coleopterist Hamlet Clark, and in 1856–57 they sailed on Gray's yacht Miranda to Spain, Algeria, and Brazil. Gray was an accomplished watercolourist, and his landscape paintings illustrate Clark's account of their journeys.[4]

Gray was also interested in postage stamps. On 1 May 1840, the day the Penny Black first went on sale, he purchased several with the intent to save them.[5]

During his 50 years employed at the British Museum, Gray wrote nearly 500 papers, including many descriptions of species new to science. These had been presented to the museum by collectors from around the world, and included all branches of zoology, although Gray usually left the descriptions of new birds to his younger brother and colleague George. Gray was also active in malacology, the study of molluscs. He was an associate of entomologist Eliza Fanny Staveley, supporting her research and reading papers she had prepared to the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London.[6]

John Edward Gray was buried at St Mary's Church, Lewisham.

Taxa named by him and in his honour

Gray was one of the most prolific taxonomists in the history of zoology. He described more than 300 species and subspecies of reptiles, only surpassed by his successors at the British Museum, George A. Boulenger and Albert Günther and American zoologist Edward D. Cope.[7]

Gray described and named numerous[8] marine snails including:

Genera named in his honour include:

Species and subspecies named in his honour include:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  J.E.Gray.
  2. ^ Boulger, George Simonds (1890). "Gray, John Edward" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Kenney, Robert D. (2009). Perrin, William F.; Wursig, Bernd; Thewissen, J. G. M (eds.). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed.). Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press. p. 963. ISBN 978-0-08-091993-5.
  4. ^ Clark, Hamlet (1863). Letters Home from Spain, Algeria, and Brazil During past Entomological Rambles (PDF). London: John Van Voorst. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. ^ "The History of Stamp Collecting Part 11 – Dr. John Edward Gray". Freestampmagazine – Stamp Collecting Blog. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  6. ^ Creese, Mary R. S., 1935– (1998). Ladies in the laboratory? : American and British women in science, 1800–1900 : a survey of their contributions to research. Creese, Thomas M. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-585-27684-6. OCLC 36386419.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Uetz, Peter (2010). "The original descriptions of reptiles" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2334: 59–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2334.1.3.
  8. ^ "Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at the Academy of Natural Sciences".
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  10. ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.
  11. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families AULOSTOMIDAE, CENTRISCIDAE, FISTULARIIDAE, SOLENOSTOMIDAE and SYNGNATHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

References

Gray's publications (representative list)

Other sources

External links

Media related to John Edward Gray at Wikimedia Commons

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