Josephine Adelaide Clark

Josephine Adelaide Clark (9 March 1856 – 24 March 1929) was an American teacher, librarian, and botanist. She was the head librarian of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1901 to 1907. Clark was a part of the second class to graduate from Smith College in 1880 and she conceived the idea of publishing a card index of new genera and species of American plants, which was continued at the Gray Herbarium.

Biography Josephine Adelaide Clark was born on 9 March 1856 to John and Caroline (Derby) Clark in Weston, Massachusetts.

After graduation, Clark became the assistant librarian at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University.

From 1901 to 1907 she was head librarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture before returning to Smith College as librarian, a position she held until 1919. "Systematic And Alphabetic Index Of New Species Of North American Phanerogams And Pteridophytes," Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution (1892) "Reference list of publications relating to edible and poisonous mushrooms" (1898) A Bird Tablet for Field Use (1898)