geographer Alexander Keith Johnston jun. OR fils (1844-1879): http://viaf.org/viaf/34756587 ;
1804 in Kirkhill near Edinburgh
1871
Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire
clerk Andrew Johnston (1770 c. -1xxx)
engraver William Johnston (1xxx-18xx) (brother) ; Isabel Keith (17xx-18xx) (mother)
apprenticed to engravers at the University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK
Atlas of General Geography (1843) ; Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena (1846-56) ; ->Alexander von Humboldt: Physical Atlas (1848/56) ; astronomer John Russell Hind (1823-1895): Atlas of Astronomy (1855) ; Royal Atlas of Modern Geography ... in a series of entirely original & authentic maps (1865ff.) ; Cosmographic Atlas ; Daniel John Cunningham (1850-1909) & botanists Arthur Henfrey (1819-1859) & Joakim Frederik Schouw (1789-1852) ;
King of Scotland: 1834-7 ; "geographer inordinary" to Queen Victoria of Great Britain: 1837-1901 ; Royal Geographical Society ;
W. Johnston (brother) ; engraver ->W. H. Lizars ; William John Turner (Roy. Geogr. Soc.) ; geologist ->Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) & map-maker ->Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871) on Geological map of Europe (1856) & Geological Map of Scotland (1846) ;
astronomical, geographical, zoological, and cartographical engraving, copperplate printing, lithography, and cartographical map-making
Linda Hall Library http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/astro_atlas/id/1333; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Keith_Johnston_(1804-1871)
Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; 100 years map making W. & A. K. Johnston (1926) ; K. Hentschel: Mapping 2002: 129 & 167 ; C. J. Schüler: Geschichte Kartographie 2010: 264f. & 290f. ; DNB 30, 1892: 34-55 ; Gerhard Engelmann in: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 108(1964): 133-149 ; J. Camerini in Isis 84 (1993): 708 ;
Active in Edinburgh & London; Geographer Royal for Scotland. http://mapsandcharts.tumblr.com/image/5041238422.
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