Draft:Haines, Mary Parry (1826-1884)

Mary Parry Haines (1826-1844) was a botanist in Indiana. She was known for her fossil collections and was appointed curator for paleontology for the Scientific Association of Richmond, Indiana.

Early life
Mary Parry was born in December of 1826 in Cinnaminson, New Jersey — one of John and Lititia Parry's five children. She married fellow New Jersey native Joshua W. Haines in 1852 and by 1870 the couple had moved to the vicinity of Richmond, Indiana, where they raised four children.

Career in science
Mary was an accomplished botanist and made plant-oriented presentations to various horticultural societies in Indiana. But she was best known for her fossil collections and was named the curator of the paleontological collection in the museum of the Scientific Association of Richmond, Indiana, when it was incorporated in 1875[5][6][15]. By 1879 her personal natural history repository was comprised of over 5100 specimens that included 1628 fossils and 1016 minerals, as well as many shells, corals, and noteworthy botanical specimens from Indiana[3][14][15].

Ms. Haines assembled a group of bryophyte/lichen specimens from the Richmond area and judging from the collection dates present on her specimens listed in the iDigBio and SEINet databases, she did most of her collecting during the 1870s. According to Flowers9, Haines' overall bryophyte/lichen herbarium (composed of her own specimens and others she obtained via exchange) bore collection dates from 1820 to 1879. During her lifetime, Mary published scholarly works on bryophytes, geology, and ferns[10][11][12][13].

Mary Haines was a communicant of William H. Pratt, curator at the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, and was elected a corresponding member of the Academy in 1874. Over time, Ms. Haines donated fossils, geological specimens, shells, beads, and other artifacts to the Davenport Academy[4][16], so it is not surprising that a collection of 83 mosses, lichens, and liverworts collected by Ms. Haines in Wayne County, Indiana is present in Davenport, Iowa’s  Putnam Museum herbarium. Other specimens collected by Ms. Haines may be reviewed via the iDigBio specimen database and the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria database.