Arthur Merton Chickering (March 23, 1887 - May 24, 1974) was a U.S. arachnologist.
He was born on March 23, 1887, in North Danville, Vermont.
From 1953 to 1971 he was Research Associate in Arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
His favorite collecting method was sifting plant litter.
From 1937 to 1972 he described 14 genera and 342 species, almost all of them from Central America, including the West Indies.