Asa Gray

A. Hunter Dupree is George L. Littlefield Porfessor of History Emeritus at Brown University and research associate at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. He is also author of Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities and the editor of several other works.

Dupree's treatment transcends Gray as an individual and depicts, in fascinating detail, the alarms and excursions of 19th-century biology... This biography of Asa Gray is definitive. Science, reviewing the first edition

• Chapter 1. Early YearsChapter 2. From Medicine to ScienceChapter 3. Government as a PatronChapter 4. Envoy to EuropeChapter 5. Last Years of UncertaintyChapter 6. The Professor at CambridgeChapter 7. The Pattern of a Young Man's Thoughts and DeedsChapter 8. "Where Plants Have No Latin Names"Chapter 9. The Personal Revolution of 1848Chapter 10. An American in World BotanyChapter 11. The Waking Hours of an Overloaded BotanistChapter 12. Gray's Mind and "The Threat of Agassiz"Chapter 13. Darwin and Japan—The Summit of Gray's CareerChapter 14. The Immediate Impact of the Origin of SpeciesChapter 15. The Crest of the Darwinian DebateChapter 16. Years of WarChapter 17. Transition from Professor to PatriarchChapter 18. A Theist in the Age of DarwinChapter 19. The Patriarch of New Plant SciencesChapter 20. Last Days, 1886–1888Note on the SourcesNotesIndex