Walther Otto Müller

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Walther Otto Müller (20 June 1833 - 17 July 1887 Gera) was a German botanist, taxonomist and botanical illustrator, who produced botanical and anatomical drawing, lithography, chromolithography and hand-colouring. He collected and studied algae, bryophytes and fungi extensively in Germany and many of his specimens are housed at the British Museum.

Works

• Köhler: Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1883-1914 - Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834-1879), Walther Otto Müller, C.F. Schmidt, and K. Gunther.
• 'Flora von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz' - Thome's [https://ia801409.us.archive.org/11/items/floravondeutschl04thom/floravondeutschl04thom.pdf - Fünfte Auflage. Revidirt... von Ernst Hallier. Colorit und Neuzeichnungen v. Walther Müller in Gera, Germany vol. 30, no.112. Compositae, 188
• 'Cryptogamen-Flora enthaltend die Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Cryptogamen Deutschlands' - Gustav Pabst and Walther Otto Müller - Gera, C.B. Griesbach, 1874-1877. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (33 x 24.5 cm). With 12 numbered lithographed plates by C. Bollman in part 1 which was written jointly by Pabst and Müller; several wood engravings in text and 25 (numbered 23) chromolithographed plates by J.G. Bach in part 2; 1 lithographed and 8 numbered chromo-lithographed plates by Franz Dietsch in part 3. Parts 2 and 3 were written by Pabst
• 'Flora Der Reussischen Lander Und Deren Nachster Umgebungen' (1863) [1]
• 'Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den angrenzenden Gebieten vorkommenden Grundformen der Orchideen-arten' (Berlin, 1904)