John Francis Walker

John Francis Walker (25 November 1839 – 23 May 1907) was a natural scientist, teacher, and museum curator.

Biography Walker was born in York, where his family had been for generations. His grandfather (Robert T. Horsley) had served as Sheriff of York in 1841. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York, and then at the Royal Agricultural College.

Walker was subsequently a student of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he studied the Natural Sciences Tripos. After Cambridge he studied chemistry at the University of Bonn under August Kekulé and was in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War. He also donated fossil specimens to the museum collection and served as the vice-president of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (then the museum;s governing body). He was a specialist in Brachiopods.

Walker was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1867, a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1873. He was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society, and a member of the Geologists' Association.

Select publications Walker, J. F. 1867. "On some new Coprolite Workings in the Fens", Geological Magazine 4, 309-310. Walker, J. F. 1878. "On the Occurrence of Terebratula Morieri in England": Geological Magazine II, 5, 52-556. Walker, J. F. 1892. "The Discovery of Terebratulina substriata, Schlotheim, in Yorkshire", Geological Magazine 9, 364. Walker, J. F. 1903. "On a Fossiliferous Band at the top of the Lower Greensand near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 59, 234-265.