John Wesley Powell
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American geologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Wesley Powell was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
John Wesley Powell's Published Works
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Published Papers
- Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States: With a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah: With Maps (98)
- Museums of ethnology and their classification. (1887) (94)
- Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-88@@@Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition@@@The Medicine-Men of the Apache (70)
- REPLY TO CRITICS. (61)
- THE HUMANITIES. (40)
- Report of exploration in 1873 of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries (37)
- Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (33)
- Physiographic regions of the United States (33)
- Preliminary report on the paleontology of the Black Hills, containing descriptions of new species of fossils from the Potsdam, Jurassic, and Cretaceous formations of the Black Hills of Dakota (25)
- COMPETITION AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN EVOLUTION (1888) (23)
- Introduction to the study of Indian languages (21)
- FROM BARBARISM TO CIVILIZATION (1888) (21)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume III: Tribes of California (16)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume I: Tribes of the extreme Northwest, Tribes of western Washington and northwestern Oregon (15)
- Introduction to the study of Indian languages, with words, phrases and sentences to be collected; by J.W. Powell. (13)
- Some remarks on the geological structure of a district of country lying to the north of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado (1873) (12)
- CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES (1901) (12)
- THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY. (1885) (11)
- THE ABSOLUTE AND THE RELATIVE. (1896) (10)
- Eleventh Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Ethnology To The Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution, 1889-90 (1895) (6)
- Linguistic families of American Indians North of Mexico / by J. W. Powell ; revised by members of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology. (6)
- Perforated stones from California (5)
- The organization and plan of the United States Geological Survey (1885) (4)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part II: On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets (4)
- Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution /J. W. Powell, director (4)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, Part II: The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon: dictionary of the Klamath language (4)
- STONE ART IN AMERICA (3)
- THE LESSONS OF FOLKLORE (1900) (3)
- Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 2: 1888-1889 (3)
- Linguistic Stocks of American Indians North of Mexico. (3)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IX: Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography (3)
- INHERITANCE AMONG THE ANCIENT ARABS. (1885) (3)
- ESTHETOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE PLEASURE (3)
- THE STUDY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. (1891) (3)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS: AN ILLUSION CONCERNING REST. (1896) (2)
- James Dwight Dana (1895) (2)
- ON THE STATE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH. (1884) (2)
- Third Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1881-1882 (2)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part I: Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old World and in America (2)
- The Interpretation of Folk-Lore (1895) (2)
- TECHNOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF INDUSTRIES (1899) (2)
- SOPHIOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE INSTRUCTION (1901) (2)
- Ninth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887-1888 (1)
- The Indians are the mound-builders. (1885) (1)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (1)
- WYANDOTTE GOVERNMENT: A Short Study of Tribal Society, Delivered at the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the dvancement of Science, August 1, 1880. (1880) (1)
- On the Nature of Motion. (1)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 2 (1)
- Twelfth annual report of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-1891: Part 1 (1)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part III: A study of the manuscript Troano (1)
- Twelfth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1890-'91 (1)
- Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896@@@Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897 (1902) (1)
- Fourteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892-1893: Part 1 (1)
- Eleventh Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Part 2: 1889-1890 (1)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 1 (1)
- Survey of the Colorado River of the West: Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting report preliminary for continuing the survey of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries (1)
- Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto. With atlas. By J.W. Powell. (1)
- THE WORK OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. (1893) (1)
- 75. An American View of Totemism. (1)
- The Evolution of Religion. (1)
- Eleventh Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Part 2- Irrigation: 1889-1890 (1)
- Sixth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1884-1885 (1)
- Fourth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1882-1883 (1)
- SEVEN VENERABLE GHOSTS (1896) (1)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume VI: The Cegiha language (1)
- Fallacies of sensation. (0)
- Lower Pa-ro-gunt (largest cave lake). (0)
- Essentials of properties. (0)
- The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology (0)
- Principles or properties of animals. (0)
- Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1893-1894 (0)
- Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. [Ed. by J.W. Powell] (0)
- Notices of Biographical Memoirs. (0)
- Lectures delivered by John Powell (0)
- CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF PRIMITIVE LAW. (1884) (0)
- DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (0)
- Fallacies of ideation. (0)
- MARRIAGE LAW IN SAVAGERY. (1884) (0)
- THE WYANDOTTES. (0)
- Quantities or properties that are measured. (0)
- Marble Cañon, the cañon at noon. [Empty rowboat on the banks of the river.] (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (0)
- The Wyandottes (1880) (0)
- Justinian's Indecision (0)
- Fourteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892-1893: Part 2 - Accompanying papers (0)
- President Mc'Kinley's Appointment of a Fish Commissioner (1898) (0)
- Wyandotte Government (1880) (0)
- THE SUBJECT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. (1896) (0)
- Head of Disaster Falls, Canyon of Lodore, Green River, NW Colorado. (0)
- Fallacies of perception. (0)
- THE LAWS OF HYDRAULIC DEGRADATION. (1888) (0)
- Proceedings of Scientific Societies (1886) (0)
- CONN'S EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY. (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (0)
- Fifth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1883-1884 (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (1896) (0)
- The Laws of Hydraulic Degradation (1888) (0)
- Chuar's illusion. (0)
- Report on the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain region (0)
- The Indians are the Mound-Builders (1885) (0)
- Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 1 (0)
- ON THE FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF DYNAMIC GEOLOGY. (1884) (0)
- Twelfth Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-1891: Part 2 - Irrigation (0)
- Professor Powell's Report of the survey of the Colorado of the West: Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a report of Professor Powell on the survey of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries (0)
- Explorers : Christpher Columbus, Lewis and Clarke, Zebulon M. Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell (0)
- Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86@@@Eighth Annual Report (1893) (0)
- Second Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1880-1881 (0)
- Fallacies of apprehension. (0)
- Miscellaneous papers relating to American Indian languages (0)
- Kinds or properties that are classified. (0)
- THE FIVE BOOKS OF HISTORY. (1895) (0)
- The Absolute and the Relative (1896) (0)
- How Music Developed. A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music. By W. J. Henderson (1899) (0)
- Types of orographic structure (1876) (0)
- Generations or properties of plants. (0)
- Eighth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 2 (0)
- Report of the survey of the Colorado of the West: Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a report of the survey of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries (0)
- Seventh Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1885-1886 (0)
- Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 1: 1888-1889 (0)
- Letter from John Wesley Powell to Alexander Graham Bell, March 20, 1888 (0)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, Part I: The Klamath Indians of sourthwestern Oregon (0)
- Mouth of the Narrows (looking up). (0)
- Fallacies of reflection. (0)
- Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to John Wesley Powell, February 28, 1898 (0)
- Biographical notice of the late Archibald R. Marvine (0)
- Processes or the properties of geonomic bodies. (0)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 3 (0)
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