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with three publications (in 1833, 1835 and 1843); three species of phasmids were subsequently named after Gray.
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The Entomology of Australia, in a series of Monographs. Part I. The Monograph of the Genus Phasma
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Descriptions and Figures of some new Lepidopterous Insects chiefly from Nepal
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Bragg, P.E. (2007) Biographies of Phasmatologists – 2. George Robert Gray.
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Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae.
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List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum.
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Description of several species of the genus Phyllium. Zoologist,
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English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)
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Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects in the British Museum
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Plates and text from Gray's 1833 Monograph on Phasmidae
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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Miscell 14: 530: 293:Royal Entomological Society of London 220:, which included 46,000 references. 421:"Gray, George Robert (1808–1872)". 24: 374:A fasciculus of the Birds of China 25: 594: 506: 84:, description of many species of 573:19th-century British zoologists 298:Gray's original description of 473: 447: 414: 13: 1: 523:Biodiversity Heritage Library 407: 387:HMS Erebus & HMS Terror. 376:. London, Taylor and Francis. 141:Author abbrev. 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Gray described many 242: 214:David William Mitchell 195:Natural History Museum 170: 494:, Mearns and Mearns, 304:Alfred Russel Wallace 255:Samuel Frederick Gray 231: 203:Samuel Frederick Gray 160: 96:Samuel Frederick Gray 389:Birds of New Zealand 260:Gray started at the 538:English taxonomists 239:Extatosoma tiaratum 483:, 15(1&2) 5–9. 243: 174:George Robert Gray 171: 36:George Robert Gray 439:(Subscription or 155: 154: 116:Scientific career 99:Elizabeth Forfeit 16:(Redirected from 590: 484: 477: 471: 470: 468: 466: 461:on 22 March 2012 457:. 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Index

G.R. Gray
FRS
Little Chelsea
London
Lepidoptera
Samuel Frederick Gray
John Edward Gray
British Museum
Author abbrev. (zoology)

Chauna chavaria
FRS
zoologist
ornithological
British Museum
Natural History Museum
John Edward Gray
Samuel Frederick Gray
David William Mitchell
Joseph Wolf

Extatosoma tiaratum
Little Chelsea
London
Samuel Frederick Gray
British Museum
Zoology
Georges Cuvier
species
Lepidoptera

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