Author:William John McGee

William John McGee
(1853–1912)

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
• "Classification of Geographic Forms by Genesis" in National Geographic Magazine, 1 (1) (1889), pp. 27–36
• "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

Popular Science Monthly

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

The New International Encyclopædia

• "Germany," in 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," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) (with Morris Jastrow and Richard J. H. Gottheil)
• "Sweden," in 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

• "McGee, W J," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)