Abstract
We can do no better for information on the Gray collection than to reproduce the following from the 1904 publication on the History of the Collections in the British Museum, Geology in vol. 1 p. 293. Geology, 293 Oray (John) As an iron-master, John Gray of Hagley, near Stourbridge, owned "Quarries in the Wenlock Limestone at Dudley, whence the stone was extracted for use as a flux. His workmen saved the fossils for him and he purchased others from elsewhere, and thus thrice amassed a splendid collection. His first was one of those to which Murchison acknowledges his indebtedness in the " Silurian System, In 1861, it contained 2730 specimens, and...
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