Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828).

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 as well as descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia of Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species. (Appendix C., pp. 397-414.) In Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North West and Western Australia during the Years 1837, 38, and 39 2: 482 pp. London. [(30).xi.1841.]