Walter Keeping MA (1854–1888) was a British geologist and museum curator.

Biography

Keeping was a master's degree graduate of

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

and worked with his father, Henry Keeping, in the

Sedgwick Museum The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the university's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge, England. The Sedgw ...

. He left the Sedgwick Museum in to take up the Chair of Natural Science in the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and was subsequently appointed Keeper of the

Yorkshire Museum The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy. History The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Soci ...

in August 1880. Upon his appointment to the role of Keeper, Keeping was paid £200 a year in wages. He had tried to negotiate a larger sum, but instead accepted the residence of St. Mary's Lodge in the

Museum Gardens The York Museum Gardens are botanic gardens in the centre of York, England, beside the River Ouse. They cover an area of of the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey, and were created in the 1830s by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society along with ...

. Shortly after moving to York he developed a form of paralysis which affected his ability to work; he retired from the museum in 1883 as a result of his 'mental infirmity'.

Publications

*Keeping, W. 1875. "The Occurrence of Neocomian Sands with Phosphatic Nodules at Brickhill", ''Geological Magazine'' 2(8). 372-375. *Keeping, W. 1878. "On Pelanechinus, a new Genus of Sea-urchins from the Coral Rag", ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London'' 34. 924–930. *Keeping, W. 1880. "The Included Pebbles of the Upper Neocomian Sands of the South East of England, especially those of the Upware and Potton Pebble-beds". ''Geological Magazine'' 7(9). 414-421. *Keeping, W. 1881
"The Geology of Central Wales"
''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society'' 37. 141-170. *Keeping, W. 1882. "The Glacial Geology of Central Wales", ''Geological Magazine'' 9(6). 251-257. *Keeping, W. 1883. "On Some New Railway Sections and other Rock Exposures in the District of Cave, Yorkshire", ''Geological Magazine'' 10(5). 215-221.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keeping, Walter 1854 births British geologists British curators 1888 deaths Fellows of the Geological Society of London Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Yorkshire Museum people Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society