> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 31](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066371) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11335-1) LSID 11335-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5820343) QID Q5820343 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Walker, Egbert Hamilton (1899-x), American botanist and botanical bibliographer; A.B. Mich. Univ. 1922; Dr. phil. Johns Hopkins Univ. 1940; Instructor Canton Christian College 1922-1926; assistant in botany Univ. Wisconsin 1926-1928; aide, division of plants Smithsonian Institution 1928-1942; assistant curator ib. 1942-1946, associate curator 1946-1958; working on various grants ib. 1956-1964; research associate 1964-1966, emeritus botanist 1967. **Abbreviated name**: *E. Walker* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.Walker*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]; other material at [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection LU|LU]], [[Collection MO|MO]]; manuscripts, field notes and correspondence: [[Collection US|US]] (SIA); other letters at [[Collection NY|NY]] (especially in Barnhart corr.). #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 423; IH 1 (ed. 1): 102, (ed. 2): 126, (ed. 3): 162; (ed. 4): 180, (ed. 6): 392; MW p. 519, suppl. 387; Roon p. 120; TL-2/5871; Tucker 3: 325. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer, men sci. eds. 5-12, 1933-1967; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 444-445. 1969; Taxon 1: 65. 1952 (collected in Ryukyo chain for flora); \[Biogr. sketch\] on book jacket, E.H. Walker, *Fl. Okinawa.* - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 617 \[index\]. 1984. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 771. 1985. - Steenis, C.G.G.J. van, Fl. males. 19: 1108. 1964 (Oberly Memorial Award for bibliography). - Stieber, M.T., Arch. nat. Hist. 11(3): 428. 1984. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 315, 316. 1936, 3: 279. 1937, 4: 68, 468, 470. 1938, 5: 455. 1939, 6: 39, 70, 423. 1943. - Walker, E.H., Taxon 10: 45-49. 1961 (references to dates of issue on entries in MW); Taiwania 18(1): 57-61. 1973 (the making of a regional flora); Autobiography, mss. 5 p.p. at HI. #### Composite works - (1) Co-author with E.D. Merrill, *Bibl. East Asiat. bot.* 1938, TL-2/5871 and of its *Supplement 1*, 1960. *Reviews*: Airy Shaw, H.K., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1938: 310-311, J.H. Barnhart, J. New York Botanical Garden 39: 139. 1938, W.T. Stearn, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1(7): 194. 1939. – *Reviews supplement*: F. Markgraf, Bot. Jahrb. 82(1)(Lit.): I. 1963, Anon., Taxon 10: 150. 1961, C.G.G.J. van Steenis, Fl. males. Bull. 839. 1961. \[Bibliography referred to in TL-2 as MW and MW suppl.\]. - (2) With H.B. Collins and A.H. Clark, *The Aleutian Islands*: their people and natural history, Washington 5 Feb 1945, iv, 131 p., *21 pl*. #### Note Main work outside our period (in addition to MW suppl.): *Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands* 1976, see Anon., Taxon 25: 658. 1976 and F.G. Meyer, Taxon 26: 472-473. 1977 (rev.). – *Preliminary Publ*.: *Important trees of the Ryukyu Islands*, U.S. Civil Adm. Ryukyu Isl., Spec. Bull. no. 3, Jan 1954, vi, 350 p. ### Publications ##### n.16.561. Fifty-one common ornamental trees of the Lignan University Campus **Title** *Fifty-one common ornamental trees of the Lignan University Campus*. A guide to the more important local trees illustrated with fifty-five plates... Canton, China (Lignan University) 1930. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Common trees Lignan Campus*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 24 Jan 1930 (in journal; t.p. reprint: "January"), p. \[i-iv\], frontisp., 1-166. *Copies*: G, HH, NY, PH. – Also issued as Lignan Sci. J. 6(1, 2), 1930. – Copy of journal issue at B. – The journal issue is dated on p. 1 "June, 1928" but has a note on p. 178: "issued January 24, 1930". ##### n.16.562. Four new species of Myrsinaceae from China **Title** *Four new species of Myrsinaceae from China*... Reprinted from Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences... 1931. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 19 Nov 1931, p. 477-480. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 21(19): 477-480. 1931. ##### n.16.563. Embelia scandens **Title** *Embelia scandens* (Lour.) Mez and its Eastern Asiatic allies... Separate from Lignan Science Journal... 1931. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Nov 1931, cover-t.p., p. 475-480. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Lignan Sci. J. 10(4): 475-480. 1931. ##### n.16.564. An enumeration of the Myrsinaceae of Yunnan **Title** *An enumeration of the Myrsinaceae of Yunnan*... \[Bull. Fan. Inst. Biol.:... 1939\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Aug 1939, cover-t.p., p. \[135\]-194, *pl. 13-24. Copies*: NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Fan Inst. Biol., Bot. Ser. 9(3): \[135\]-194, *pl. 13-24.* 1934. ##### n.16.565. A revision of the Eastern Asiatic Myrsinaceae **Title** *A revision of the Eastern Asiatic Myrsinaceae*... Manila (Bureau of printing) 1940. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 31 Oct 1940 (date on cover), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-258, \[259, vita\]. *Copies*: G, HH, M. – Issued as Philipp. J. Sci. 73(1-2): 1-258. Sep-Oct 1940. – Dissertation for Dr. phil. Johns Hopkins. ##### n.16.566. Plants collected by R.C. Ching **Title** *Plants collected by R.C. Ching* in southern Mongolia and Kansu Province, China ... Washington (United States Government Printing Office) 1941. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Jul 1941 (some copies thus dated), cover-t.p., p. \[i\]-v, 563-675, vii-xiii, *pl. 22-27. Copies*: B, BR, H, HH, NY, U, US. – Issued as and to be cited from Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 28(4). 1941.