> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 312](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266619) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16814-1) LSID 16814-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21388469) QID Q21388469 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Calkins, Col. William Wirt|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Calkins, William Wirt (1842-1914), American amateur mycologist, bryologist and lichenologist, born in Farm Ridge, La Salle County, Illinois, served in the civil war, entered business and law. **Abbreviated name**: *Calk.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Calk.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection ILL|ILL]] (incl. field notes), [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CM|CM]] (410 Lich.), [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MTMG|MTMG]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]]. – *Exiccatae*: *Florida fungi* (1888) at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]]([[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]]), [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NDA|NDA]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – For Note on *Florida fungi* see Calkins, W.W., J. mycol 2: 6, 23, 42, 53, 70, 80, 89, 104, 126. 1886. – *Field notes*: [[Collection ILL|ILL]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 300 (b. 29 Mai 1842, Farm Ridge, Ill., d. 9 Jul 1914, Berwyn, Cook Co. Ill.); BM 6: 171; Bossert p. 63; CSP 14: 15; GR p. 183-184; GR cat. p. 61; IH 2: 112; Kew 1: 454; LS 4587-4596, 7613; Rehder 4: 18, 77; SBC. p. 117; TL-2/1: 425-426. #### Biofile - Anon., Bryologist 17(5): 79. 1914 (d.). - Calkins, W.W., List of papers, books and articles, literary and scientific, written and published by W.W.C. of Berwyn, Ill., 4 p., \[1911\] ("from 1860 to Jan 1911"). *Copies*: NY, BKL. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 95. 1969. - Fink, Bruce, Mycologia 7(2): 57-60, *pl. 154.* 1915 (portr., list of 38 publ.). - Hasse, H.E., Bryologist 17(6): 96. 1914 (d.). - Hawksworth, D.L., Mycologist's handb. 181. 1974. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 63. 1972. - Pennel, F.W. and J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 602. 1935. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 113, 115, 128. 1944. - Rogers, D.P., Brief Hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 20. 1981. - Stevenson, J.A., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 76-77. 1971. - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 4(3): 153. 1982 (field notes at ILL). - Stieber, M.T.and A.L. Karg, Huntia 5(1): 129. 1984 (letter to F.V. Coville). #### Composite works - (1) J. Mueller Arg., *Graphideae Eckfeldtianae*, Bull. Herb. Boissier 3(2): 41-50. 1895, see TL-2/6473, publication used Calkins material. ### Publications ##### n.24.121. Catalogue of Lichens **Title** *Catalogue of Lichens*, collected in Florida in 1885... Manhattan, Kansas... 1886. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1886 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[i, t.p.\], \[1-3\]. *Copy*: BKL. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. mycol. 2(11): 112-114, 138. 1886. ##### n.24.122. lichen-flora **Title** The *lichen-flora* of *Florida*. Catalogue of species, with notes, and also notices of new species... The Journal of Mycology... 1887. Oct. *First author*: John Wiegand Eckfeldt (1851-1933). **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov & Dec 1887, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-10. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. mycol. 3(11): 121-126. Nov, (12): 133-137. Dec 1887. ##### n.24.123. Lichen-flora of Chicago **Title** The Chicago Academy of Sciences. The *Lichen-flora of Chicago* and vicinity... Bulletin no. 1 of the Geological and Natural History Survey... 1896. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Lichen-fl. Chicago*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1896 (date on cover-t.p., Nat. Nov.Oct (2) 1896), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-50, \[51\]. *Copies*: G, L. – Issued as Bull. Geol. nat. hist. Survey no. 1. *Ref*.: Abbé Hue, Bull. Soc. bot. France 44(Bibl.): 490-491. 1897 (rev.).