William John McGee
(1853–1912)

American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist

William John McGee

Works

  • First-hand observations of the Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1886
  • The Earth: the Home of Man
  • The Remains of Don Francisco Pizarro
  • Prehistoric North America
  • The Pleistocene History of Northeastern Iowa (1889)
  • The Geology of Chesapeake Bay (1888)
  • The Siouan Indians (1895) (external scan)
  • Trails to Tiburón (1895)
  • Primitive Trephining (1897)
  • The Seri Indians (1899)
  • Primitive Numbers (1901)
  • Proceedings of a conference of Governors in the White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1908
  • Soil Erosion (1911)
  • Wells and Subsoil Water (1913)

Articles

  • "On the löss and associated deposits of Des Moines, Iowa" with Richard Ellsworth Call in The American Journal of Science, Series 3, 24 (141) (1882), pp. 202–223
  • "The drainage system and the distribution of loess of Eastern Iowa" in Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 6 (1884), pp. 93–97
  • "The Pleistocene history of northeastern Iowa" in Annual Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, 11 (1) (1891), pp. 199–577 Ed. John Wesley Powell
  • "Seriland" with Willard Drake Johnson in National Geographic Magazine, 7 (4) (1896), pp. 125–133
  • "Our National Seminary of Learning" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 96 (574) (1898), pp. 633–639

The New International Encyclopædia

Works about McGee

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