Author:John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray
(1800–1875)

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

• The Zoological Miscellany (Six parts, 1831–1844) (small works) 1831
• Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum Mammalia, 1843, Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, 1844, Lizards, 1845, Snakes, 1849 etcetera
• Molluscorum Britanniæ synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain by William Elford Leach, 1852 (external scan)
• Genera of plants (1866, by Richard Salisbury, edited by Gray)

Work about Gray

• "Gray, John Edward," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.