Portrait of James Gray
Date
c.1940s
Sitter
James Gray (1891 - 1975) , Zoologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 150mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of James Gray, looking left of the camera, dressed in a grey suit, black tie and white shirt. A book is just visible in the bottom left corner, open in his hands.
Sir James Gray (1891-1975), British zoologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1948 for ‘his distinguished researches in cytology, ciliary movement, and particularly his anatomical and experimental studies of animal posture and locomotion’ and delivered its Croonian Lecture in 1939.
Sir James Gray (1891-1975), British zoologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1948 for ‘his distinguished researches in cytology, ciliary movement, and particularly his anatomical and experimental studies of animal posture and locomotion’ and delivered its Croonian Lecture in 1939.
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