| LC control no. | n 87926621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879 |
| Variant(s) | Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1844-1879 |
| Associated country | Scotland |
| Birth date | 1844 |
| Death date | 1879 |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Behobeho (Tanzania) |
| Affiliation | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| Profession or occupation | Geographers Explorers |
| Found in | His Africa [MI] 1884: t.p. (Keith Johnston) NUC pre-1956 (hdg.: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1844-1879) DNB, v. 30, p. 55 (Johnston, Alexander Keith, the younger (1844-1879), geographer, eldest son of Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871), born at Edinburgh on Nov. 24, 1844) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed July 1, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Johnston, Keith; Alexander Keith Johnston; explorer, geographer; born in 1844 in Edinburgh, Scotland; educated in prestigious schools in Edinburgh; was a superintendent of drawing and engraving in a mapmaking firm in Stanford, London; became a Fellow (1870) and an Assistant Curator of Maps (1872) at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS); was a scientific traveler, participated in the survey of Paraguay (1874); wrote papers of discoveries in Africa and Nile for Nature (1870); in the proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh he described for the first time the climate, topography, population, and tribes of the Lake Region; lead an expedition of the Royal Geographical Society to Central Africa (1878); succumbed to dysentery in Behobeho, now Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania; his research was published posthumously, Africa in Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel; died 1879 in Behobeho, Tanzania) |
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