George Robert Gray 488974 224857465 2008-07-10T18:51:36Z Luckas-bot 7320905 robot Adding: [[cs:George Robert Gray]] [[Image:Gray R G Bird 1844-49.png|thumb|right|''Chauna sp.'' South America, Plate from ''Genera of Birds'']] '''George Robert Gray''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] ([[July 8]], [[1808]] - [[May 6]], [[1872]]) was an [[England|English]] [[zoology|zoologist]] and [[author]] and head of the ornithological section of the [[British Museum]] in [[London]] for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of [[John Edward Gray]] and the son of the botanist [[Samuel Frederick Gray]]. George Gray's most important publication was his ''Genera of Birds'' (1844-49), illustrated by [[David William Mitchell]] and [[Joseph Wolf]], which included 46,000 references. ==Biography== Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831. He began by cataloguing [[insect]]s, 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]]. In [[1833]], he was a founder of what became the [[Royal Entomological Society of London]]. Gray's original description of the [[Gray's Grasshopper Warbler]] which was named for him appeared in 1860. The specimen had been collected by [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] in the [[Moluccas]]. ==Works== *''The Entomology of Australia, in a series of Monographs. Part I. The Monograph of the Genus [[Phasmatidae|Phasma]]''. London. *1846 ''Descriptions and Figures of some new Lepidopterous Insects chiefly from Nepal''. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. *1871 ''A fasciculus of the Birds of China''. London, Taylor and Francis. *with [[Richard Bowdler Sharpe]], ''The Zoology of the Voyage of'' [[HMS Erebus]] & HMS Terror. ''Birds of New Zealand''., 1875. The revised edition of Gray (1846) (1875). ==External links== *[http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/stick-insects/papers/gray1833/index.html Plates and text from Gray's 1833 Monograph on Phasmidae] [[Image:Gray plate8 .jpeg|thumb|230px|left|Plate 8 from The Monograph of the Genus ''Phasma'' ]] ==References== *''Biographies for Birdwatchers'', Mearns and Mearns, ISBN 0-12-487422-3 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, George Robert}} [[Category:British ornithologists]] [[Category:Employees of the British Museum]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:English entomologists]] [[Category:1808 births]] [[Category:1872 deaths]] [[cs:George Robert Gray]] [[da:George Robert Gray]] [[de:George Robert Gray]] [[es:George Robert Gray]] [[fr:George Robert Gray]] [[id:George Robert Gray]] [[is:George Robert Gray]] [[it:George Robert Gray]] [[la:Georgius Robertus Gray]] [[nl:George Robert Gray]] [[pt:George Robert Gray]] [[ro:George Robert Gray]] [[ru:Грей, Джордж Роберт]] [[fi:George Robert Gray]] [[sv:George Robert Gray]]