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THE death is announced of Mrs. Robert Gray, of Edinburgh, who had for many years collected fossils from the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Girvan, Ayrshire, with great assiduity and skill, and had continued her field labours up to last summer. She was in her ninety-third year. Her collection of more than 40,000 specimens was recently purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum, and contains material described by T. Davidson, Alleyne Nicholson, R. Etheridge fil., Lapworth, Cowper Reed, Bather, W. K. Spencer, and other specialists. In 1903 Mrs. Gray was awarded the Murchison fund of the Geological Society of London.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 113, 397 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113397c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113397c0