Author:William John McGee

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William John McGee (1853–1912)

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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" in The American Journal of Science, Series 3, 24 (141) (1882), pp. 202−223. With Richard Ellsworth Call.
• "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" in National Geographic Magazine, 7 (4) (1896), pp. 125−133. With Willard Drake Johnson.

Popular Science Monthly

• “Croll's Climate and Time,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, April 1880
• “Paleolithic Man in America: His Antiquity and Environment,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 34, November 1888

The New International Encyclopædia

• “Germany,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906. (with Cyrus C. Adams, Dana C. Munro, Edwin A. Start, Ernest Ingersoll, James Wilford Garner, and others)
• “Jews,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905. (with Morris Jastrow and Richard J. H. Gottheil)
• “Sweden,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905. (with Cyrus C. Adams, James Wilford Garner, and Edwin A. Start)

Works about

• “McGee, W J,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.