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George Robert Gray
English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 July 1808
- Died
- 6 May 1872
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Gray
- Father
- Samuel Frederick Gray
- Field of work
- zoology
- Occupation
- ornithologist, zoologist, lepidopterist, curator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English
- author citation (zoology)
- G. R. Gray
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900
- different from
- George Grey
- educated at
- Merchant Taylors' School
- employer
- British Museum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- George Robert Gray
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Catalogue of the Mammalia and birds of New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum
- Catalogue of the birds of the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the collection of the British Museum
- Descriptions and figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal
- Catalogue of the genera and subgenera of birds contained in the British Museum
- The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization
- Catalogue of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum
- A fasciculus of the birds of China
- Catalogue of British birds in the collection of the British Museum
- Catalogue of British Birds in the Collection of the British Museum
- Nomenclature of birds
- Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidæ
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