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 1901–1907. 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.
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9 March 1856 Weston, Massachusetts
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24 March 1929 (aged 73) Claremont, California
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