Asa Gray
Asa Gray
Asa Grayis considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was also considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 November 1810
CountryUnited States of America
assume continuous family fossil larger occupied quite wide
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
discover expectation expected increased might powers
Increased powers of investigation- microscopical and chemical- might be expected to discover them. This expectation has not been fulfilled.
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The natural history of protoplasm enables me to proceed to other evidences of the substantial oneness of the two kingdoms of organic nature.