Collections : [Albertus Magnus College]

Marcella O'Grady Boveri was born on October 7, 1863 in Boston, Massachusetts to Anne Mahan O'Grady and Thomas O'Grady. Marcella was the youngest of three children. In 1885, Marcella became the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a concentration in biology. The collection includes approximately 1,000 pieces of correspondence, a handwritten and illustrated Zoology textbook, photographs, ephemera, various publications and articles written about Boveri and her scientific research, and books that Boveri owned. Two oversized boxes contain a microscope and a microtome, both used by Boveri while at Albertus Magnus College.