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Early life{{Infobox person| name = Mary Anna Day | birth_date = 1852 | death_date = 1924 | parents = }} Day was born on October 12, 1852 in Nelson, New Hampshire, the daughter of Sewell and Hannah (née Wilson) Day.[1][2] During childhood, Day moved with her family to Lancaster, Massachusetts, and went to school at Lancaster Academy. From 1871 to 1880, Day worked as a public school teacher in Massachusetts and public librarian in Clinton, Massachusetts.[1] On January 1, 1893, Day moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was appointed librarian of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. Her work involved checking bibliographical references, proofreading manuscripts, preparing indexes and statistics on the library and herbarium collections."[3] Day's first major assignment was the verification of about 5,000 bibliographical references in a collection of manuscripts by Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, which were being prepared for a posthumous publication by the curator William Coolidge Lane.[4] Day aided in the publication of many botanical works, notably Gray's Synoptical Flora of North America and the 7th edition of Gray's Manual of Botany.[1] Card Index of New Genera, Species, and Varieties of American PlantsDay's most important work was her contributions to the Card Index of New Genera, Species, and Varieties of American Plants, a quarterly publication that was begun by Josephine Adelaide Clark, who preceded Day as librarian of the Gray Herbarium. In 1903, after the publication of the first 20 issues (about 28,000 cards), the work was turned over to the herbarium. Day prepared the publication between her regular duties as a librarian, indexing over 130 scientific serials, including foreign language monographs. Upon its completion in November 1923, the index contained 170,000 cards.[4] DeathDay fell seriously ill in 1922, but recovered to return to work at the age of 70. In November 1923 she again became sick, and retired due to her health.[2] She died January 27, 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 72.[5] References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news|url=https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/cambridge?a=d&d=Tribune19240202-01.2.39|title=Miss Mary A. Day|last=|first=|date=2 February 1924|work=Cambridge Tribune|access-date=26 December 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|edition=49|volume=XLVI|page=4}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Mary}}{{library-bio-stub}}2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=aHUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=Mary+Anna+Day+botany#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Anna%20Day%20botany&f=false|title=Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915|last=Leonard|first=John William|date=1914|publisher=American Commonwealth Company|isbn=|location=|pages=235|language=en}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940|last1=Rossiter|first1=Margaret W.|date=1 August 1984|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0801825095|page=337}} 4. ^1 {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=amtGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Mary+Anna+Day+botany#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Anna%20Day%20botany&f=false|title=Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research|last=Creese|first=Mary R. S.|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780585276847|language=en}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last1=Robinson|first1=B.L.|title=Mary A. Day|journal=Science|date=29 February 1924|volume=59|issue=1522|pages=205–6|url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/59/1522/205|accessdate=2 March 2017|pmid=17742408|doi=10.1126/science.59.1522.205}} 5 : American librarians|Harvard University librarians|1852 births|1924 deaths|People from Nelson, New Hampshire |
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