[1] From 1917 until her death, Lister was a trustee on the Botanical Research Fund, and was the chair of the School Nature Study Union for a number of years.

[6] Lister corresponded with fellow mycologists from all over the world, including the Emperor of Japan, who sent her a pair of enamel vases to thank her for her help in his studies.

[6] She travelled frequently with Alice Hibbert-Ware, fellow naturalist and member of the Linnean Society of London to Europe and New Zealand to birdwatch and study fungi.

[10] To keep up to date with research, Lister even learnt Polish so as to be able to read the work of Jósef Tomasz Rostafinski in the study of British and European Myxogastria.

[4] She contributed to the Royal Irish Academy's Clare Island Survey, and is credited by Robert Lloyd Praeger in aiding in the advancement of Mycetozoa study in Ireland.

[4] She bequeathed 74 research notebooks to the British Mycological Society, which later were accessioned to the Natural History Museum, London, which documented the work Lister and her father had conducted on historical collections as well as their own.