Biographical entry McKeown, Keith Collingwood (1892 - 1952)

Summary

Keith Collingwood McKeown was appointed Assistant Curator of Insects at the Australian Museum in 1929. Earlier, from 1915, he had worked as a clerk with the New South Wales Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas until appointed as Entomological Research Officer in 1927.

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Walsh, G. P., 'McKeown, Keith Collingwood (1892-1952), Entomologist, Naturalist and Author', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, p. 309. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100302b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• McKeown, Keith C., 'Some Early Glimpses of Australian Wild Life', The Australian Museum Magazine, vol. 6, 1937, pp. 260-263. Details
• McKeown, Keith C., 'Our Explorers' Insects', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1952, pp. 33-46. Details
• McKeown, M., 'Alfred George Fryett, Radiographer', Australasian Radiology, vol. 32, no. 1, 1988, pp. 12-17. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'McKeown, Keith C', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635665. Details