> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 603](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120734) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2042-1) LSID 2042-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702168) QID Q1702168 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Dawson, (Sir) John William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Dawson, \[Sir\] John William (1820-1899), Canadian palaeobotanist at McGill University, Montreal 1855-1893. **Abbreviated name**: *J. W. Dawson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Dawson*\] #### Collections Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; some herbarium collections at BH. *Ref*.: IH 2: 154. - Hueber and Banks, Taxon 16: 81-85. 1967. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 251-252; Barnhart 1: 428; BB p. 86; BM 1: 429-430, 6: 256; Bossert p. 96; CSP 2: 182-184, 6: 630, 7: 497-499, 9: 653-654, 12: 186, 187, 14: 506-508; DNB suppl. 1(2): 120; Jackson p. 537 \[ind.\]; ME 1: 178, 3: 562; Merrill p. 577, 578, 695 (portr.); Quenstedt p. 108. - Ward, Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 5: 377-378. 1885. - Adams, Bull. geol. Soc. Amer. 11: 550-580. 1900 (bibl. p. 557-580 by Ami) (portr.) - Ami, Amer. Geologist 26: 1-48. 1900 (bibl., portr.), also repr. Minneapolis 1900, 63 p. - Adams and Ami, Proc. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada ser. 2. 7(4): 3-44. 1901. - Dawson, Rankin (ed.), Fifty years of work in Canada 1901, 306 p. (autobiogr.) - Woodward, Hist. Geolog. Soc. London 217. 1909. - Reynolds Green, Hist. bot. 143. 1909. - Stafleu, in Daniels and Stafleu, Taxo 23(4): 482. 1974 (portr.) ### Publications ##### n.1318. The chain of life in geological time **Title** *The chain of life in geological time*. A sketch of the origin and succession of animals and plants... with numerous illustrations. \[London\] (The religious tract society) \[1880\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Chain life geol. time*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug-Sep 1880 (Nat. Nov. Sep-Oct 1880), frontspiece, p. \[iii\]-xiv, \[1\]-272, *pl. 1-192*, uncol. liths. *Copy*: MICH. ##### n.1319. The geological history of plants **Title** *The geological history of plants*... with illustrations. London (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) 1888. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Geol. hist. pl.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Feb-Mar 1888 (preface Feb 1888; enscribed copy by author to G. W. Butler at U: 28 Mar 1888), p. \[i\], frontisp., \[iii\]-x, \[1\]-290, 79 ills. – Int. Scientific Series lxiii. *Copies*: BR, G. *Reissue*: 1888, New York (D. Appleton and Company), duod. (in sixes), p. \[i\], front., \[iii\]-x, \[1\]-290, 79 ills. – Int. Scientific Series lxi. *Copies*: NY, US. *Ed. 2* (reissue?): London 1905 (n.v.) *Ref*.: Andrews p. 26; BM 6: 256 (ed. 1905).