James John Walker (entomologist)

James John Walker (entomologist)

John James Walker (16 May 1851 , Sheerness – 12 January 1939) was a English entomologist.

Walker was a marine engineer trained at the Royal Navy dockyard in Sheerness and voyaged around most of the world, collecting insects when on land.His daughter married George Charles Champion another entomologist cementing their friendship. After his retirement Walker lived in Oxford and became one of the editors of the "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine".His house, in Summertown, a select suburb of Oxford was named 'Aorangi the Maori name for Mount Cook, a favourite place visited on his travels.

Walker's collections from the Pacific , Australia, New Zealand and the Mediterraneanare shared by the Natural History Museum , London and the Oxford University Museum which also conserves his British Coleoptera.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (President 1919-20) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

References

*Blair, K. G. 1939 [Walker, J. J.] "L'Entomologiste" 72 48.
*Carpenter, G. D. H. 1941 [Walker, J. J.] "Proc. Linn. Soc. London" 151(4) 260-262.
*Grensted, L. W. 1939: [Walker, J. J.] "Rep. Ashmolean nat. Hist. Soc. Oxfordshire" [1938] 22-23.
*Hesselbart, G., Oorschot, H. van & Wagener, S. 1995 "Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder". Bocholt.
*Hobby, B. M. 1939: [Walker, J. J.] "J. Soc. Brit. Ent". 2(1) 43-44.
*Poulton, E. B. 1939 [Walker, J. J.] "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (3) 75 64-70 (Walker's publications on Coleoptera with some notes on other insect Orders,mainly Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are listed through to p.79) as 'A selected and classified bibliography of J.J. Walker's publications 1872-1939'.

External links

Internet Archive [http://www.archive.org/details/texts] directs to internet texts of
*Edward Saunders 1890 Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by J. J. Walker, Esq., R.N., F.L.S., at Gibraltar and in North Africa."Entomologists Monthly Magazine" 26: 201-205 (ants only)
*Auguste Forel 1900 Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie. Récoltés par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.-J. Walker, etc. "Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique" 44:54-77


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