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Mycologia 
His collection of mosses and lichens still remains in the possession 
of Mrs. Calkins. This collection contains 25 or 30 new species of 
lichens collected by Mr. Calkins and named mostly by William 
Nylander. Many of his other fungi were distributed by Ellis and 
Everhart. 
Mr. Calkins was an amateur scientist, who was possessed of 
a genuine love of nature. Conditions of life prevented his en- 
tering the ranks of professional naturalists, but he never lost his 
relish for the study of natural science. He will be remembered 
by botanists as a keen-eyed collector of plants, who has by his 
field work materially added to our knowledge of various kinds of 
fungi. Some of his specimens will always remain in various 
American herbaria. 
It will be of interest to botanists to know that Mr. Calkins was 
a prolific writer from early manhood. His first papers, in i860, 
were on geology, and the whole number of papers and books to the 
time of his death was about 150. These writings covered titles 
on geology, conchology and other zoological subjects, war corre- 
spondence, various historical papers, and other miscellaneous 
topics. His history of the 104th Illinois regiment is a work 
of 518 pages, and there are one or two smaller historical books. 
His largest scientific paper seems to have been “ The Lichen 
Flora of Cook County, Illinois ” — a work of 50 pages with brief 
diagnoses of 125 lichens. There is added below a nearly complete 
bibliography of his botanical papers. Two papers on “ The Flora 
about Berwyn, Illinois ” published in “ The Berwyn Current,” in 
1907, eight or nine botanical papers in “the Ottawa (111.) Re- 
publican,” from 1880 to 1892, and three papers in the first volume 
of “The Valley Naturalist,” some of which contain botanical 
material, have not been seen and therefore are not listed. The 
available titles are as follows : 
1. Calkins, W. W. Rambles of a Naturalist in Southern Florida. Cinn. 
Quart. Journ. Sci. 2: 161-164. 1875. Mainly on the fauna with a few 
notes on seed-plants and marine algae. Another paper under a different 
title was published in the same volume, but is devoted wholly to the 
fauna. 
2. Calkins, W. W, Notes on the winter Flora of Florida. Bot. Gaz. 2 : 
128-129. 1877. 
3. Calkins, W. W. Tillandsias under cultivation. Bot. Gaz. 4; 209-210. 
1879. 
