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Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879

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Personal name headingJohnston, Keith, 1844-1879
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Variant(s)Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1844-1879
Associated countryScotland
Birth date1844
Death date1879
Place of birthEdinburgh (Scotland)
Place of deathBehobeho (Tanzania)
AffiliationRoyal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Royal Society of Edinburgh
Profession or occupationGeographers Explorers
Found inHis 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)