John Scott Keltie

(29 March 1840 – 12 January 1927) In 1883 Keltie joined the Royal Geographic Society becoming the Society's Librarian in 1885. Upon the death of Henry Walter Bates in 1892 he succeeded him as Assistant Secretary of the Society (in effect its Secretary, as the official Secretary was a figurehead from the nobility). Among his first tasks was the relaunching of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society as the Geographical Journal in 1893. He was officially given the title of Secretary in 1896. Keltie retired as Secretary of the Society in 1915 and was succeeded by Arthur Robert Hinks, though he remained as joint editor (with Hinks) of the Geographical Journal until 1917.