Homepage

Record

Authorised form of nameKeith; Sir; Arthur (1866 - 1955)
Dates1866 - 1955
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPersley, Aberdeenshire
Date of birth05 February 1866
Place of deathDowne, Kent
Date of death07/01/1955
Research fieldAnatomy
Anthropology
ActivityEducation:
King Edward School, Aberdeen?; Robert Gordon's College (1882); MD
Career:
Conservator of Museum and Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, London (1908-1933); Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution (1917-1923); President, British Association (1927); Rector, Aberdeen University (1930-1933)
Honours:
Kt 1921
Memberships:
FRCS; Roll (Aberdeen)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/05/1913
RelationshipsSon of a farmer
PublishedWorks 'Human Embryology and morphology', 1902; 'The Antiquity of Man' 1915;
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1955 vol 1 pp 145-161, plate, by W E Le Gros Clark
Notes:
Discrepancy between dates in various sources; 05 February 1866 seems the most likely
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/46753857
CodeNA7000
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1913/11Keith, Sir Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002495Keith, Sir Arthurnd
CD/52/41Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith27 August 1920
CD/52/58Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith12 October 1920
NLB/57/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A [Arthur] Keith, FRS, Director of the Mackie Anthropological Expedition26 September 1919
NLB/59/312Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS14 September 1920
CD/52/69Letter from [Arthur] Keith, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society2 December 1920
CD/54/43Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir Arthur Keith7 May 1923
NLB/51/8Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Arthur Keith FRS19 November 1914
NLB/50/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Arthur] Keith, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1914
NLB/50/839Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Arthur] Keith, Fellow of the Royal Society16 November 1914
NLB/69/65Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS23 December 1925
NLB/60/402Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS29 January 1921
NLB/61/468Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS9 July 1921
NLB/53/413Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS01 August 1916
NLB/60/902Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS25 April 1921
NLB/58/367Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS20 April 1920
NLB/58/68Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS9 March 1920
NLB/54/471Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS21 May 1917
NLB/54/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Arthur Keith, FRS26 September 1917
RR/23/108Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'The development of the pancreas, the pancreatic and hepatic ducts, in Trichosurus vulpecula' by Margaret TribeJuly 1916
RR/23/59Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'On the post-œstrous changes occurring in the generative organs and mammary glands of the non-pregnant dog' by Francis Hugh Adam Marshall and E T HalnanDecember 1916
NLB/54/660Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS18 July 1917
NLB/54/828Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS12 October 1917
NLB/56/114Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS26 November 1918
RR/26/76Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'A remarkable flint implement from selsey bill' by Edwin Ray Lankester[February 1921]
NLB/54/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Arthur Keith, FRS4 October 1917
NLB/58/436Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS5 May 1920
NLB/56/430Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arhur] Keith, FRS10 February 1919
NLB/56/573Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Arthur Keith, FRS17 March 1919
RR/30/69Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'On certain abnormalities occurring in the pituitary of the frog' by H R Hewer12 June 1924
CD/52/28Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith5 May 1920
NLB/59/645Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS28 October 1920
RR/42/89Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'Australopithecus africanus. With a note on the fossil remains associated with australopithecus africanus' by R A DantJune 1930
NLB/63/121Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS01 July 1922
RR/35/64Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'A graphite suspension for intravital injection of capillaries' by Cecil K Drinker and Edward D ChurchillApril 1927
NLB/58/26Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS, Editor of 'The Journal of Anatomy'2 March 1920
NLB/58/844Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS24 June 1920
NLB/57/285Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society7 October 1919
RR/35/47Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'On the ear region of certain of the Chrysochloridae' by C Forster Cooper1927
NLB/59/200Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS26 July 1920
NLB/72/303Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS27 June 1929
RR/39/41Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'On the structure of the mammal-like reptiles of the sub-order Gorgonopsia' by Robert Broom[July 1929]
NLB/59/219Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS27 July 1920
NLB/59/283Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS27 August 1920
NLB/60/266Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS8 January 1921
NLB/60/23Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS3 December 1920
NLB/60/619Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS3 March 1921
RR/31/81Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'Dimensions of the labyrinth correlated' by Henry J Watt[April 1924]
NLB/62/798Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS8 May 1922
NLB/61/487Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS11 July 1921
NLB/60/332Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS20 January 1921
NLB/60/559Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS24 February 1921
NLB/63/150Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS07 July 1922
NLB/63/134Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS05 July 1922
NLB/60/889Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Keith, FRS21 April 1921
NLB/61/84Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Keith, FRS6 May 1921
NLB/57/516Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A [Arthur] Keith, FRS21 November 1919
RR/53/67Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'Experiments on the development in vitro of the avian knee-joint' by Honor Bridget Fell and R G Cantind [August 1934]
NLB/61/465Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS; Anatomical Society9 July 1921
NLB/55/653Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor Arthur] Keith, FRS09 July 1918
NLB/64/404Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS28 March 1923
NLB/63/167Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS07 July 1922
NLB/57/824Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A [Sir Arthur] Keith, FRS13 February 1920
CD/52/4Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society16 February 1920
NLB/65/629Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS30 November 1923
NLB/64/601Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS10 May 1923
NLB/64/811Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer K.B.E. FRS22 June 1923
CD/54/55Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society2 June 1924
NLB/64/584Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS07 May 1923
NLB/67/402Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS15 December 1924
NLB/66/237Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy], Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS24 March 1924
CD/54/56Letter from John Roscoe [leader of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition], Ovington Rectory, Thetford, to [Arthur] Keith21 May 1924
NLB/65/852Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/69/653Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS9 July 1926
NLB/67/220Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS14 November 1924
NLB/66/738Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS.1 July 1924
NLB/67/353Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS8 December 1924
CD/52/2Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society7 February 1920
CD/52/70Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Arthur] Keith3 December 1920
NLB/66/765Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.24 July 1924
NLB/69/239Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS12 February 1926
NLB/68/50Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS; Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.2.5 May 1925
NLB/68/885Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, KBE, FRS20 November 1925
CD/52/21Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith12 April 1920
NLB/72/291Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, MD, FRS24 June 1929
NLB/69/938Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS20 November 1926
NLB/70/705Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS8 July 1927
NLB/69/324Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Aeronautical Research Committee, National Physical Laboratory3 March 1926
NLB/69/544Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS3 June 1926
NLB/71/444Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS21 May 1928
CD/52/25Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith26 April 1920
NLB/72/330Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS8 July 1929
CD/54/2Letter from [Arthur] Keith, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society2 March 1922
NLB/72/439Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS22 October 1929
CD/52/35Letter from Dr [Arthur] Keith, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society23 July 1920
NLB/72/413Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS7 October 1929
CD/54/10Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society10 May 1922
NLB/72/895Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS20 June 1930
CD/52/6Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society23 February 1920
CD/5/17Copy letter from the Royal Society, to Professor [John] Graham Kerr, Professor [John Stanley] Gardiner, Professor [James Thomas] Wilson, Sir [David] Prain, Dr [Arthur William] Hill, Sir Arthur Keith, Sir [Alfred Daniel] Hall, Professor [Robert] Newstead, Colonel [Henry George] Lyons, Dr [John William] Evans, Sir [Richard] Threlfall, Sir [John] Cadman18 January 1923
CD/53/13Letter from Professor [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society14 March 1921
CD/50/20Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society30 December 1918
CD/51/49Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society2 October 1919
CD/52/12Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith9 March 1920
CD/50/11Letter from [Peter] Jeffrey Mackie, to Dr [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London6 November 1917
CD/50/1Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society25 September 1917
CD/51/48Copy letter from [the Royal Society], to Professor [Arthur] Keith28 September 1919
CD/52/40Letter from [Arthur] Keith, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society28 July 1920
CD/52/37Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith27 July 1920
CD/52/60Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith28 October 1920
CD/52/45Letter from [Arthur] Keith, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society28 August 1920
CD/51/56Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Arthur] Keith 24 October 1919
CD/51/51Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society6 October 1919
CD/52/24Letter from Arthur [Robertson] Cushny, Pharmacological Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, to [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2.22 April 1920
CD/51/50Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society21 October 1919
CD/52/36Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Arthur] Keith26 July 1920
CD/53/12Letter from Professor [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society26 February 1921
CD/54/17Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society3 July 1922
CD/54/16Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society30 June 1922
NLB/65/854Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/65/846Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Grafton] Elliot Smith, FRS18 January 1924
CD/52/59Letter from [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 October 1920
IM/002496Keith, Sir Arthurnd
RR/51/65Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'A comparative study of the endocranial cast of Sinanthropus' by Joseph L Shellshear and Grafton Elliot Smith[January 1934]
NLB/57/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr SF [Sidney Frederick] Harmer, FRS, Chairman of the Zoology Committee2 February 1920
CD/51/53Copy letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society6 October 1919
CD/51/55Letter from [James George] Frazer, 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4., to Arthur Keith20 October 1919
CD/50/6Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society12 October 1917
NLB/65/855Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/56/341Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Milner16 January 1919
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/60New Letter Book volume 60, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration2 December 1920-26 April 1921
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/52/93Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'The brain of the Aboriginal Australian. A study in cerebral morphology' by Joseph L ShellshearDecember 1934
CD/103/14Letter from Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Robert Harrison21 December 1917
RR/45/92Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'On the endocranial cast of the adolescent Sinanthropus skull' by Davidson Black16 November 1932
RR/51/63Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'The primitive features of the cerebrum, with special reference to the brain of the bushwoman described by Marshall' by Joseph L Shellshear[July 1933]
Add to My Items
    Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

    Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

    Useful Links

    Collection highlights

    Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

    The mammals of Australia
    The mammals of Australia
    Papers of Howard Florey
    Papers of Howard Florey
    Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius
    Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius
    Papers of Colin Pillinger
    Papers of Colin Pillinger
    Browse Collections

    The Royal Society

    The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of
    the world's most eminent scientists and is the
    oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
    Registered charity number 207043

    Website design ©CalmView



    CONTACT US

    + 44 207 451 2500
    (Lines open Mon-Fri, 9:00-17:00. Excludes bank holidays)

    6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

    Email Us →

    SUBSCRIBE

    Subscribe to our newsletters to be updated with the
    latest news on innovation, events, articles and reports.

    Subscribe →

    © CalmView