Miss A. Walton, a naturalist residing in the Eastern Cape and a member of the Eastern Province Naturalists' Society,
collected shells and insects. As early as 1892 the British expert on molluscs,
G.B. Sowerby*, named the rare South African marine gasteropod Clanculus waltonae
after her. She seems to have sent shells to Sowerby at some time, although the
species named after her was sent to Sowerby by James Crawford* of Port
Elizabeth. She is known to have collected a species of the genus Achatina on the farm Resolution, some 20 km north-east of
Grahamstown on the road to Alice. As late as 1928 'Miss Walton' sent ants
collected on Resolution to the South
African Museum.
