Traveller and Alpinist
Walker was a traveller with a liking for mountains. His known trips are
- 1830 - An extended trip to France with the entomologist John Curtis establishing a lifelong friendship. They visited Fontainebleau Montpellier, Nantes and Vaucluse, sightseeing and collecting insects, particularly Satyridae. The trip ended in Jersey
- 1836 - a three-month collecting trip to Lapland with William Christy, Jr. and W.D. Hooker.
- 1848 - Thanet
- 1849 - with his new bride Elizabeth May a summer in Switzerland. They also went to the Isle of Wight.
- 1857 - collecting and visiting museums in Calais, Rouen, Paris, Strasbourg, Aix (for fossil insects), Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Mainz, Cologne, Brussels, and Antwerp. Most time was spent in the Black Forest.
- 1861 - North Devon,
- 1863 - in the Lake District
- 1865 - North Wales and Ireland but most of 1865 was spent on the continent, in Paris, Geneva, Lucerne, Interlaken, Altdorf.He again ascended Mount Pilatus and went to Mürren, Kandersteg, Oeschinen See and climbed to the Gemmi Pass.
- 1867 - Col de Voza, Mer de Glace, the Tête Noire Pass on the way from Martigny to Chamonix, Sion, Great St Bernard Pass, Saint-Maurice, Villeneuve and Geneva.
- 1868 - Isle of Man, Holyhead North Wales including Llanberis.
- 1870 - Llanberis and North Wales.
- 1872 - Rome, Pisa, Lucca, Florence, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Milan, Venice, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore.
- 1874 - Land's End and Scilly Isles
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