> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 112](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259158) of TL-2 Suppl. V > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934867) QID Q934867 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Dawson, George Mercer (1849-1901), Canadian geologist, the son of Sir John William Dawson, graduated at the London School of Mines in 1873, naturalist and member of the Northern American Boundary Survey 1873, with the Commission of 1874, joined the Canada Geological Survey 1875, became 20 years later its director. **Abbreviated name**: *G.M. Dawson* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CAN|CAN]] and [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 428 (b. 1 Aug 1849, Pictou, N.S., d. 2 Mar 1901, Ottawa, Ont.); BM 1: 429; Ewan ed. 1. 195, ed. 2: 57; IH 2: 154; Quenstedt p. 107-108; Rehder 1: 311, 2: 257, 3: 116, 4: 76; Tucker 1: 189. #### Biofile - Adams, F.D., Obituary, Science ser. 2. 13: 561-563. 1901 (portr.) (fide Quenstedt 107-108), Bull. Geol. Soc. 13: 497-509. 1902 (portr., bibl.). - Ami, H.M., Amer. Geol. 28: 76-86. 1901 (bibl.), Ottawa Naturalist 15: 43-52. 1901 (portr.); Proc. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada ser. 2. 8: 192-201. 1902; Canad. Rec. Sci. 8: 503-516. 1903 (131 titles in bibl.). - Harrington, B.J., Obituary, Amer. Geol. 28: 67-76. 1901 (portr.); Proc. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada ed. 2. 9(4): 183-192. 1902; Canad. Rec. Sci. 8: 413-425. 1902 (portr.). - Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 292, 307, 344. - Merrill, E.D., Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 695 (see so p. 549). - Penhallow, D.P., Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada ser. 2. 3(sect. 4): 32. 1897. - Pennell, F.W. and J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 605. 1935. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. Bot. 1873-1892: 79, 111, 211, 301-302. 1944. - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 84. 1970. - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geologie Paläontol. bis Ende 19. Jahrh. 551. 1899. ### Publications ##### n.29.274. Report **Title** *Report* on the geology and resources of the region in the vicinity of the forty-ninth parallel, from the *Lake* of the *Woods* to the *Rocky Mountains*, with lists of plants and animals collected, and notes of the fossils... Montreal (Dawson brothers...) London (Sampson, Low & Co.), New York (B. Westermann & Co.) 1875. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Rep. Lake Woods Rocky Mount.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1875, col. map, p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]- 387, *pl. 1-18* (uncol. draw.), 1 col. map. *Copies*: BM, NY. – Issued by British North American Boundary Commission. ##### n.29.275. trees **Title** Note on the distribution of some of the more important *trees* of *British Columbia*... From the Canadian Naturalist... 1881. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1881 (text signed Jun 1880), p. \[1\]-11. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Canad. Natural. ser. 2. 9(6): 321-331. 1880 \[1881\]. *Note*: "Printed in advance of the Report of progress of the geological survey of Canada for 1879-80". on p. \[1\].