John Wesley Powell
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John Wesley Powell's Degrees
- Masters Geology Illinois Wesleyan University
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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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- 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) (95)
- 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. (62)
- THE HUMANITIES. (41)
- 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 (34)
- 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)
- FROM BARBARISM TO CIVILIZATION (1888) (21)
- Introduction to the study of Indian languages (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)
- CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES (1901) (12)
- Some remarks on the geological structure of a district of country lying to the north of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado (1873) (12)
- THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY. (1885) (11)
- THE ABSOLUTE AND THE RELATIVE. (1896) (10)
- 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)
- Eleventh Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Ethnology To The Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution, 1889-90 (1895) (6)
- Perforated stones from California (5)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, Part II: The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon: dictionary of the Klamath language (4)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part II: On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets (4)
- The organization and plan of the United States Geological Survey (1885) (4)
- Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution /J. W. Powell, director (4)
- ESTHETOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE PLEASURE (3)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IX: Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography (3)
- STONE ART IN AMERICA (3)
- THE LESSONS OF FOLKLORE (1900) (3)
- INHERITANCE AMONG THE ANCIENT ARABS. (1885) (3)
- Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 2: 1888-1889 (3)
- THE STUDY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. (1891) (3)
- Linguistic Stocks of American Indians North of Mexico. (3)
- ON THE STATE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH. (1884) (2)
- SOPHIOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE INSTRUCTION (1901) (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)
- James Dwight Dana (1895) (2)
- The Interpretation of Folk-Lore (1895) (2)
- Third Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1881-1882 (2)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS: AN ILLUSION CONCERNING REST. (1896) (2)
- TECHNOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF INDUSTRIES (1899) (2)
- Twelfth annual report of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-1891: Part 1 (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)
- The Indians are the mound-builders. (1885) (1)
- On the Nature of Motion. (1)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (1)
- Eleventh Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Part 2: 1889-1890 (1)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume VI: The Cegiha language (1)
- 75. An American View of Totemism. (1)
- Fourth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1882-1883 (1)
- Ninth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887-1888 (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)
- SEVEN VENERABLE GHOSTS (1896) (1)
- The Evolution of Religion. (1)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part III: A study of the manuscript Troano (1)
- Fourteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892-1893: Part 1 (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)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 1 (1)
- Sixth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1884-1885 (1)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 2 (1)
- Eleventh Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Part 2- Irrigation: 1889-1890 (1)
- THE WORK OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. (1893) (1)
- Twelfth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1890-'91 (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 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)
- Fifth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1883-1884 (0)
- Notices of Biographical Memoirs. (0)
- Essentials of properties. (0)
- Fallacies of sensation. (0)
- Report on the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain region (0)
- Letter from John Wesley Powell to Alexander Graham Bell, March 20, 1888 (0)
- Processes or the properties of geonomic bodies. (0)
- Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. [Ed. by J.W. Powell] (0)
- Second Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1880-1881 (0)
- Fallacies of perception. (0)
- Proceedings of Scientific Societies (1886) (0)
- Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1893-1894 (0)
- The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology (0)
- Generations or properties of plants. (0)
- Fallacies of reflection. (0)
- Seventh Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1885-1886 (0)
- Types of orographic structure (1876) (0)
- ON THE FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF DYNAMIC GEOLOGY. (1884) (0)
- Eighth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 2 (0)
- The Indians are the Mound-Builders (1885) (0)
- Kinds or properties that are classified. (0)
- MARRIAGE LAW IN SAVAGERY. (1884) (0)
- Marble Cañon, the cañon at noon. [Empty rowboat on the banks of the river.] (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (1896) (0)
- Explorers : Christpher Columbus, Lewis and Clarke, Zebulon M. Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell (0)
- Fourteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892-1893: Part 2 - Accompanying papers (0)
- The Laws of Hydraulic Degradation (1888) (0)
- Chuar's illusion. (0)
- Thirteenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891-1892: Part 3 (0)
- Lectures delivered by John Powell (0)
- DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (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)
- Wyandotte Government (1880) (0)
- Justinian's Indecision (0)
- Quantities or properties that are measured. (0)
- Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to John Wesley Powell, February 28, 1898 (0)
- CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF PRIMITIVE LAW. (1884) (0)
- Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86@@@Eighth Annual Report (1893) (0)
- Fallacies of ideation. (0)
- Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 1 (0)
- THE WYANDOTTES. (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (0)
- Biographical notice of the late Archibald R. Marvine (0)
- President Mc'Kinley's Appointment of a Fish Commissioner (1898) (0)
- Principles or properties of animals. (0)
- Miscellaneous papers relating to American Indian languages (0)
- THE LAWS OF HYDRAULIC DEGRADATION. (1888) (0)
- CERTITUDES AND ILLUSIONS. (0)
- The Absolute and the Relative (1896) (0)
- Mouth of the Narrows (looking up). (0)
- The Wyandottes (1880) (0)
- THE FIVE BOOKS OF HISTORY. (1895) (0)
- Fallacies of apprehension. (0)
- Head of Disaster Falls, Canyon of Lodore, Green River, NW Colorado. (0)
- How Music Developed. A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music. By W. J. Henderson (1899) (0)
- Twelfth Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-1891: Part 2 - Irrigation (0)
- Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 1: 1888-1889 (0)
- Lower Pa-ro-gunt (largest cave lake). (0)
- THE SUBJECT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. (1896) (0)
- Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, Part I: The Klamath Indians of sourthwestern Oregon (0)
- CONN'S EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY. (0)
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