What is John Edward Gray?
{{Infobox Scientist | name = John Edward Gray | image = Gray John Edward 1800-1875.png | birth_date = {{birth date|1800|02|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[West Midlands (county)|Walsall]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1875|3|7|1800|2|12|df=y}} | death_place = | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] | field = [[Zoology]] | work_institutions = [[British Museum]] }} '''John Edward Gray''' [[FRS]] (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) studied [[medicine]] in [[London]], and became an [[england|English]] [[zoology|zoologist]]. Gray was [[Keeper]] of [[Zoology]] at the [[British Museum]] from 1840 until Christmas 1874. That was before the [[natural history]] holdings were split off to be the [[Natural History Museum]]. Gray published several catalogues of the museum collections which discussed animal groups and described new [[species]]. He improved the collections to make them amongst the best in the world. During his life he wrote over 500 [[academic]] papers, mostly on new [[species]]. Gray was also interested in [[postage stamp]]s; on 1 May 1840, the day the [[Penny Black]] first went on sale, he bought some to keep, thus making him the world's first known [[stamp collector]]. == Works (partial list)== * 1825 : An outline of an attempt at the disposition of the Mammalia into tribes and families with a list of the genera apparently appertaining to each tribe. ''Annals of Philosophy'' (ns) '''10''' : 337-344. * 1826 : Vertebrata: Mammalia. (Appendix B in part). p.&nbsp;412-415 in King P.P. (ed) ''Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822''. With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history. London: J. Murray, vol. 2. * 1827 : Synopsis of the species of the class Mammalia. p.&nbsp;1-391 in Baron G. Cuvier ''The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization'', with additional descriptions by Edward Griffith and others. (16 vols: 1827-1835). London: George B. Whittaker, vo