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| Collectors: | Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949. | |
| Title: | (George) Clyde Fisher Papers (PP) | |
| Dates: | 1903-1912 | |
| Quantity: | 5 linear inches; 1 box | |
| Call Phrase: | Fisjer (PP) | |
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.
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.
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| The collection is organized into three series: | ||
| Series 1: Class notes. | ||
| Series 2: Laboratory notes. | ||
| Series 3: Manuscript. | ||
This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.
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.
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| The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. | ||
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| Botany--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. | ||
| Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949. | ||
| New York Botanical Garden Archives. | ||
(George) Clyde Fisher Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.
This collection was donated to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.
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).
| Series 2. Laboratory notes . |
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Scope and Content: Notes for class which Dr. Fisher assisted. |
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| Folder | Title | Date | |
| 1.8 | Botany laboratory | 1910-1911 | |
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| Series 3. Manuscript. |
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Scope and Content: Eight page handwritten paper by Fisher at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, August, 1904. |
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| Folder | Title | Date | |
| 1.9 | Economic importance of fungi | 1904 | |
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