LEE BARKER WALTON— AN APPRECIATION 



Lee Barker Walton was born at Bear Lake, Pa., Novem- 

 ber 11, 1871, and died at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, 

 May 15, 1937. 



My acquaintance with him began at a meeting of the 

 Ohio Academy of Science in December, 1902, when his 

 discussion of certain papers impressed me with his pene- 

 trating observation and logical statement. The friend- 

 ship there begun remained unbroken through the years. 

 I welcome the opportunity to pay tribute to his memory. 



Of his boyhood life I have scant personal knowledge. 

 He never talked much about his own experiences but I 

 have gathered from various sources the impression that he 

 grew up under favorable conditions for the foundation of 

 the scholarship so evident in his later career. 



From a letter by his sister I learn that he was born on a 

 farm eight miles from the city of Corry, Pa., and entered 

 school at that city in the third grade, going through the 

 grades and two years in high school and two years of col- 

 lege preparatory at Keuka College, New York (near Penn 

 Yan). She writes: 



"At about ten years of age he began collecting moths 

 and butterflies. Through a friend he obtained the address 

 of an entomologist in Canada and from him received 

 much help and encouragement in this line of work. At 

 one time he had over a thousand mounted bugs and 

 beetles, some very rare specimens. By exchanging, his 

 collection became very good. His chief occupation dur- 

 ing vacations was the collecting of these bugs and beetles. 

 His sister, some years younger, often accompanied him 

 and learned to fear no insects. 



"From the time he learned to read he was an inveterate 

 reader and by his actions showed he would rather read 

 than do anything else. When boys came to play, nearly 

 always after a short time he would be missing. They 



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