Guide to the Walter K. Fisher Original Illustrations
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
November 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1004
Creator:
Fisher, Walter K., (Walter Kenrick), 1878-1953
Title: Walter K. Fisher original illustrations
Dates: 1903-1947
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Materials were collected by the Hopkins Marine Station librarian Joe Wible and transferred to the Stanford University Archives
in 2010.
Cite As
[identification of item], Walter K. Fisher Original Illustrations (SC1004). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Walter K. Fisher was educated at Stanford University, earning 3 degrees in zoology: A.B. 1901, A.M. 1903, and Ph.D. 1906.
He joined the Stanford faculty in 1902 as assistant in zoology, becoming an instructor in 1907, assistant professor in 1909,
and professor of biology in 1925. He was Director of the Hopkins Marine Station from 1917 until his retirement in 1943. Although
he specialized in invertebrates, he was also known for his work in ornithology.
Scope and Contents note
Collection consists of 28 original plates prepared for publication; subjects are asteroidea (starfishes) and echiuroid and
sipunculoid worms.
Access Terms
Echiura.
Sipuncula.
Starfishes.
Box 1, Folder 1-4
Original illustrations for Plates II, III, XLI, AND XLVII in “The starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands,” U.S. Fish Commission
Bulletin for 1903, Part III, pages 987-1130.
Box 1, Folder 5-9
Original illustrations for Plates 50-54, 56-58, 111-113 in Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia
and Spinulosa. United States National Museum Bull. 76, pages 1-419 [Original plate 111 has only figs. 2a, 2b, 3, 3a, 4, 4a,
5, 6; figs. 1, 2 are absent, but present in published version]
1911
Box 1, Folder 10-11
Original illustrations for Plates 14 and 77 in Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 2. Forcipulata. United
States National Museum Bull. 76, pages 1-245.
1928
Box 1, Folder 12-15
Original illustrations for Plates 35, 39, 41, and 153 in “Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters,” Smithsonian
Institution. United States National Museum. Bulletin 100, v.3, pages 1-712 [Original plates are labeled “31, 35, 37, 134,”
respectively]
1919
Box 1, Folder 16-18
Original illustrations for Figures A, F, G, and J and Plate XVI in Asteroidea. Discovery Reports. 20: 69-306, [Original plates
are labeled “A, F, G, J, and XVI,” respectively]
1940
Box 1, Folder 19
Original illustrations for Plate 26 (Bonelliopsis alaskana) in “Echiuroid worms of the North Pacific Ocean,” Proceedings of
the United States National Museum: 96 (3198): 215-292.
1946
Box 1, Folder 20
Original illustrations for Plate 11 (sipunculus galapagensis) in “New genera and species of echiuroid and sipunculoid worms,”
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 97 (3218): 351-372.
1947
