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### Author
Calkins, Col. William Wirt (1842-1914), American amateur mycologist and lichenologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Calk.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Calk.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material in a number of herbaria (mainly [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]), mostly his fungus exsiccatae or lichens.
*Exsiccatae*: *Florida fungi* (1888), at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NDA|NDA]], [[Collection NY|NY]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 112.
- Stevenson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 76-77. 1971.
- Hawksworth, Mycologist's handb. 181. 1974.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 300; Bossert p. 63; BM 6: 171; CSP 14: 15; GR p. 183-184; LS 4587-4596.
- Calkins, Bibliography, list of papers, books and articles, s.l. 1911, 4 p. *Copy*: NY.
- Hasse, Bryologist 17: 79, 96. 1914.
- Fink, Mycologia 7: 57-60, *pl. 154.* 1915 (portr., bibl.)