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Index of Botanists

NameSpencer, Mary Fisk
Date of birth1841
Date of death1940
Remarks [collector note: née Fisk; Collection: "... assembled a herbarium of more than 12,000 sheets of vascular plants, chiefly from Central and Southern Europe, with a few from Norway, the British Isles, North Africa and Asia Minor. This herbarium was later presented to Oberlin College ... Many of the [San Diego County] plants which she herself was unable to identify were determined at Gray Herbarium" (vide Madrono 6: 83. 1941); California. GH]
ASA Botanist ID108819 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/b3d97580-fe52-4115-b82d-864de873be84
Variant nameMary Fisk Spencer
Variant nameFisk, Mary Evelyn
Standard/Label NameM. F. Spencer
Full NameSpencer, Mary Fisk
Geography CollectorUnited States of America
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as Collector Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
Citation as CollectorBiography (incl. Photograph) in: Madrono 6: 82-84. 1941
Member of teams/groups
HoldingsSearch for specimens collected by M. F. Spencer
Collections in[no date] (14),  1892 (3),  1894 (1),  1895 (1),  1897 (3),  1898 (1),  1899 (5),  1900 (1),  1901 (2),  1903 (2),  1904 (2),  1906 (1),  1910 (1),  1913 (1),  1915 (2),  1916 (119),  1917 (209),  1918 (172),  1919 (140),  1920 (103),  1921 (143),  1922 (109),  1923 (74),  1924 (20),  1925 (3),  1926 (3),  1928 (1)
Collector Teams:M. F. Spencer & Estelle Strasburg  M. F. Spencer & F. G. Woodcock  L. H. Pammel & M. F. Spencer 

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