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Asa Grey is a famous American biologist. He was born on November 18, 1810 in Sauquoit, New York. Grey’s education started in local schools, before attending an academy in nearby Clinton New York. In 1825 he entered Fairfield Academy and after a year began attending medical lectures at Fairfield’s college of Physicians and Surgeons. While he studied there, he was introduced to chemistry, mineralogy, and botany by James Hadley. Grey began collecting plants during his apprenticeship in Bridgewater, New York. For a brief time after he received his M.D. degree in 1831 he practiced medicine there. In 1832 he abandoned the practice of medicine and spent the next five years in a series of part-time positions in teaching and libraries. He had already

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