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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1924 



WAS EXPERT IN BOTANY 



MI«b Mary A. Day Was Librarian of Gray 

 Herbarium at Harvard For Thirty Hears 



Miss Mary Anna Day, for thirty years 

 hi the service of* Harvard as librarian at 

 the Gray Herbarium, died Sunday in her 

 srventy-second year at the home of her sis- 

 ter, Mrs. Burke F. Leavitt, in Cambridge. 

 She was born in Nelson, N. IT., Oct, 12, 

 1S.YJ. the daughter of Sewell and Hannah 

 (Wilson) Day, of Colonial ancestry. Early 

 In life she moved with her family to Lan- 

 caster, where she was educated at the Lan- 

 caster Academy. For about ten years Bhe 

 taught In the Massachusetts public schools, 

 but later she was librarian In the public 

 library of Clinton. In 1893 she accepted 

 rppolntment as librarian of the Gray Her- 

 barium of Harvard University, a position 

 which she held until last November, when 

 failing health forced her to relinquish all 

 professional duties. 



AVith special aptitude for her work, Miss 

 Lay became a recognized expert on botani- 

 cal btbiliography. She aided In seeing 

 through press portions of Dr. Asa Gray'< 

 Synoptical Flora, the seventh edition of 

 Gray's Manual of Botany and many contri- 

 butions from the Gray Herbarium. For 

 twenty years she edited a Card IiJdex of 



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a and Species of American Plants, 

 terly publication of high reference 

 covering more than 130 scientific 

 r the world and in 

 as also author of 

 i of New England 

 s of New Engl; 



many language.^ She w 

 papers on the lofcal flora: 



