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in 1880 and she conceived the idea of publishing a card index of new genera and species of
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in 1873, and continued to teach there after graduation. In the fall of 1876 she began attending
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Adelaide Clark was born on 9 March 1856 to John and Caroline (Derby) Clark in
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