Frederick Andrews Walpole

Frederick Andrews Walpole (17 January 1861 Port Douglas, Essex County, New York - 11 May 1904 California) was a botanical illustrator employed by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Coville was a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanist and herbarium curator, who at that time was in Oregon documenting plants found useful by the Klamath Indians.

A span of the journals from November 1902 to January 1903 listed the following activities: two visits to Zoological Park; showing his own pictures (along with Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the famous bird artist, and Charles Robert Knight, the animal artist) at an American Ornithological Union meeting; lecture by Robert Peary on his arctic work; Jane Addams' lecture at Congregational Church; recital by Mme.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Corcoran Gallery exhibition; visit to Library of Congress; lecture on wingless birds; another on protective coloring; another on Martinique; reading Owen Wister's The Virginian; meeting of the Folk Lore society; reception of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; music recital at Unitarian Church; Hagenbeck's Trained Animal Show; ping pong party across the street.

Considering that he was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Geographic Society and the Biological Society of Washington, we might say that Frederick Walpole was a man firmly devoted to the American virtue of participation and self-improvement.His journal records on the Alaska trips painted quite a different picture: Walpole concentrating on his work, enjoying spectacles of glaciers and mountains, recording details of natives and fellow travelers, and affording an insight into the man.