Person
McKeown, Keith Collingwood (1892 - 1952)
- Born
- 6 November 1892
Burwood, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 21 August 1952
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Entomologist
Summary
Keith 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.
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Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Walsh, G. P., 'McKeown, Keith Collingwood (1892-1952), Entomologist, Naturalist and Author' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), p. 309. 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, 6 (1937), 260-263. Details
- McKeown, Keith C., 'Our Explorers' Insects', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (1952), 33-46. Details
- McKeown, M., 'Alfred George Fryett, Radiographer', Australasian Radiology, 32 (1) (1988), 12-17. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21393569. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/119811177. Details
- 'McKeown, Keith C (1892-1952)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635665. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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