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, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (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

McCarthy, G.J.

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