Talk:Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871)

wrong keith?

There is a book on archive.org

A Physical, Historical, Political & Descriptive Geography by Keith Johnston

https://archive.org/details/aphysicalhistor00johngoog/page/n6

the author of this book is also named

By KEITH JOHNSTON, F.RG.S.

LEADER OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'S EAST AFRICAN EXPEDITION, 1878

so I guess he is'nt died in 1871 and some important work in his bio is missing, see above, maybe someone can correct this?

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I guess its his son, see article ion section family, but if so, this work/book is missing in this bio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Keith_Johnston_(1844%E2%80%931879)

National Atlas

The article refers to Johnston's The National Atlas of General Geography, published in 1843. However I can find no record of an Atlas with this name. The National Library of Scotland's catalogue has The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography published in 1843, so I guess this is the work referred to. There is also the later Half-crown national atlas of general geography, so this may explain the confusion. Unless someone has bibliographic evidence for an 1843 National Atlas of General Geography I will correct this.Kognos (talk) 15:50, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

I've updated thee title and tidies up a few citations.Kognos (talk) 15:54, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Two conflicting dates for when the Royal Atlas was published

The article has two conflicting dates for when the Royal Atlas was published, one saying it was first published in 1855, the other saying it was first published in 1861 : 'The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography was first published in 1855 and served as an atlas of military geography to accompany Alison's History of Europe published in 1848.'

and

'In 1861, Johnston published the first edition of the Royal Atlas of Modern Geography with 48 maps.' DlronW (talk) 14:30, 19 November 2023 (UTC)