John Edward Gray
(1800–1875)

British zoologist and Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 to 1875

John Edward Gray


Works

  • Illustrations of Indian Zoology (1830-1835, with Thomas Hardwicke) Vol. 1 (transcription project) and Vol. 2 (transcription project)
  • Synopsis reptillium; or, Short descriptions of the species of reptiles, 1831 (external scan)
  • A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, With William Turton, 1840 (external scan)
  • Descriptions of some new or imperfectly characterized Lepidoptera from Australia in John Lort Stokes (1846), Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1, Appendix
  • Descriptions and figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal, 1846 (external scan)
  • Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall. Illustrated by Edward Lear, 1846 vol 1, vol 2
  • The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, during the years 1839 to 1843. By authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. (1844 - 1875) (external scan) (start transcription)
  • Catalog of Shield Reptiles (Two volumes, 1855 and 1870)
  • On the Management of the Library of Printed Books in the British Museum, 1849 (short work) (external scan)
  • A hand catalogue of postage stamps, 1862 (external scan)
  • Notes on zoological museums, 1864 (small work) (external scan)
  • Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata): and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls, 1869 (external scan)
  • The illustrated catalogue of postage stamps, 1870 (external scan)

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

  • Notes on the Skull of Balæna marginata, described in "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," Vol. ii., p. 26, as the Type of a New Genus, Neobalæna (1870)
  • Note on the Fur Seal of New Zealand (1872)
  • List of Seals, Whales, and Dolphins of New Zealand (1873)
  • Notice of the Skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) (1873)
  • Notes on Dr. Hector's Paper on the Whales and Dolphins of the New Zealand Seas (1873)


As editor

Work about Gray


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