Elizabeth Fisher was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1909. She obtained a PhD. degree in entomology in 1938 from Cornell, worked as an entomologist for several years, then as a bacteriologist. During the 1950s to 1980s, she was very active at her favorite hobby, collecting and determining bryophytes, becoming well known to professional bryologists of the time. She died in 2000 at the age of 90 and is buried in Baltimore.
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1 June 2010
Elizabeth Gault Fisher—A Maryland Amateur Bryologist
Carl E. Darigo
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The Bryologist
Vol. 113 • No. 2
Summer 2010
Vol. 113 • No. 2
Summer 2010
Elizabeth Fisher
Maryland bryology