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A MEMOIR of Mr. Johnston would be the record of a life laboriously and successfully devoted to the spread and popularisation of a single science. Mr. Johnston's first maps, the result of a walking excursion through the north of Scotland, appeared in 1830, and were issued in a Traveller's Guide-Book. His first large work was the “National Atlas,” folio, on which he was assiduously engaged for upwards of five years, having projected and drawn the greater part of the maps (forty-five in number) and written nearly all the names they contain with his own hand. This work went through many editions, and was considered the best of its time.
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Alexander Keith Johnston, LL.D. . Nature 4, 225 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004225a0
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