(George) Clyde Fisher papers
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise class notebooks at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer School in 1903 and 1904; botany notes from Johns Hopkins University between 1910 and 1912 and an essay "Economic importance of fungi," 1904.
Dates
- 1903 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.
Conditions Governing Use
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. (George) Clyde Fisher, educator and astronomer, was born in Sidney, Ohio, May 22, 1878. He received a B.A. from Miami (Ohio) and a PhD. from Johns Hopkins in 1913. Miami University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1926. He began his career at the American Museum of Natural History as assistant curator in the department of public education in 1913; from 1928 to 1941 he was curator of the department of astronomy serving as the head of the Hayden Planetarium from 1935 to 1941. A member of numerous scientific organizations, his primary interests were solar eclipses, meteors, and meteor craters. Fisher died in 1949.
Extent
5 Linear Inches (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is organized into three series:
Items
- Series 1: Class notes.
- Series 2: Laboratory notes.
- Series 3: Manuscript.
Physical Location
Archives, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden.
Other Finding Aids
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.
Processing Information
Originally processed by an archives volunteer in August 2000. Converted to EAD in June 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
- Title
- (George) Clyde Fisher papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Archives Volunteer
- Date
- August 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Originally processed by an archives volunteer in August 2000. Converted to EAD in June 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
Revision Statements
- June 2006: Converted to EAD by Kathleene Konkle.
Repository Details
Part of the The Archives of the New York Botanical Garden Repository
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
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Bronx NY 10458 United States
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