> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 370](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189841) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7912-1) LSID 7912-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348325) QID Q348325 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902), American naturalist, geologist, ethnologist, and administrator; major of artillery, U.S. army, in Civil War 1861-1865; after the war professor of geology in Illinois Wesleyan College and Illinois Normal Univ.; exploring the Rocky Mountains from 1867; from 1871-1879 head of the Survey of the Rocky Mountains; director U.S. Bureau of Ethnology 1879-1902; also Director U.S. Geol. Survey 1881-1894. **Abbreviated name**: *J.W. Powell* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.W.Powell*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]; further material at [[Collection GH|GH]]. – Manuscripts Powell Collection, Illinois State Normal University and in Smithsonian Archives. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 105 (b. 24 Mar 1834, d. 23 Sep 1902); BM 4: 1605; CSP 8: 654, 11: 57, 17: 994; Ewan ed. 1: 355 (index), ed. 2: 177-178 (great detail); Herder p. 18, 36; Lenley p. 334; ME 1: 220-221; Merrill p. 709, 729; PH 1, 1-B, 567; Quenstedt p. 344; PH 1, 1-8, 567; Rehder 5: 685; Tucker 1: 13, 566. #### Biofile - Anon., Pop. Sci. Monthly 20: 390-397. 1882. - Brewer, N.H., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 4. 14: 377-382. 1902 (obit.). - Bryant, H.C., Cosmos Club Bull. 1(8): 2-5. 1948 (co-founder Cosmos Club, 1878). - Chamberlain, A.F., J. Amer. Folklore 15: 201-203. 1902 (bibl.). - Dall, W.H., Bull. philos. Soc. Washington 14: 300-308. 1905 (biogr. sketch). Darrah, W.C., Powell of the Colorado. Princeton 1951, xiii, 426 p. (main biogr.). - Davis, W.M;, Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 8: 11-83. 1915 (first main biogr., portr.). - Dellenbaugh, F.S., The romance of the Colorado River. The story of its discovery... with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons. ed. 3. New York, London, 1909, xxxvii, 402 p. (ed. 1: 1902). - Gilbert, G.K., Science ser. 2. 16: 561-567. 1902 (obit., portr., b. 24 Mar 1834, d. 23 Sep 1902; lost right arm in battle of Shiloh, civil war); Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 113-118. 1903; Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1902: 633-640. 1903 (obit., portr.). - Graham, E.H., Bot. Studies Uinta Basin, Utah, 14-17. 1937 (Ann. Carnegie Mus. 26). - Lincoln, M.D. et al., Open Court, Chicago 16: 705-715. 1902, 17: 14-25, 86-94, 162-174, 228-239, 281-290, 342-351. 1903. - McVaugh, R., Edward Palmer 84. 1956. - Meadows, P., John Wesley Powell, Univ. Nebr. Stud. ser. 2. 10, 106 p. (biogr., bibl., further biogr. refs.). - Merrill, E.D., Bishop Mus. Bull. 144: 152. 1937, Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30: 244. 1947 (bibl.). - Merrill, J.W., Amer. Geologist 31(6): 327-332. 1903 (obit., portr.; Survey of the Rocky Mountains in rivalry with Hayden and Wheeler). - Mitten, W., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 10: 166-195. 1868 (P's mosses described). - Moldenke, H.N., Plant Life 2: 77. 1946 (1948). - Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. Hist. 96. 1937. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1189. 1863, 3: 1064. 1898, 5(2): 1001. 1926 (d. 23 Sep 1902). - Powell, J.W., Down the Colorado. Diary of the first trip through the Grand Canyon 1869. Eliot Porter: photographs and Epilogue 1969. New York 1969, 168 p. - Rabbitt, M.C. et al., The Colorado River region and John Wesley Powell., Geol. Surv. prof. Pap. 669, Washington 1969. A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869-1969. (contains Rabbitt, J.W. Powell, pioneer statesman of federal science, p. 1-21), (frontisp., portr.). - Reveal & Hafen et al., Western America ed. 3. 391, 393. 1970; Reveal, J. *in A*. Cronquist et al., Intermount. Fl. 1: 56, 57. 1972. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 42-43, 49, 57, 137, 237. 1944. - Ross, K., Cosmos Club Bull. 11(10): 3-12. 1958 (P's role in founding the Cosmos Club; id. Natl. Geogr. Soc; portr., biogr. sketch). - Smith, H.N., Miss. Valley hist. Rev. 34: 37-58. 1947 (establishment U.S. Geol. Survey). - Spitzka, E.A., Amer. Anthropologist ser. 2. 5(4): 585-643. 1903 (study of the brain of J.W.P.). - Stegner, W., beyond the hundredth meridian, John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West. Boston 1954, xxv, 438 p. - Walcott, C.D. et al., Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 99-112. 1903 (portr., various papers on P read at commemoration meeting, followed by bibl. by Warman, q.v.). - Ward, L.F., Glimpses of the Cosmos 2: 426-438. 1943 (portr., biogr. sketch). - Warman, P.C., Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 131-187. 1903 (*main bibl*., 251 nos.). - Watson, E.S., ed., Professor goes west: Illinois Wesleyan University, Reports on Major John Wesley Powell's expeditions 1867-1934, Bloomington 1954, 138 p., see also Ewan, J., Rhodora 63: 179-180. 1961. - Zittel, K.A. von, Hist. geol. palaeontol. 184, 207, 209, 210, 211, 274. 1901. ### Publications ##### n.8243. Exploration of the Colorado River **Title** *Exploration of the Colorado River* of the West and its tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington (Government Printing Office) 1875. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Explor. Colorado R.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1875 (US copy inscribed 10 Sep 1875), p. \[i\*\], front, \[fig. 1\], \[iii\*\], \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-291, *pl. 2-80. Copy*: US. – Warman no. 11. – For a revised edition see below, *Canyon's of the Colorado*, 1895. ##### n.8244. Canyons of the Colorado **Title** *Canyons of the Colorado*... Meadville, Pa. (Flood & Vincent, the Chautauqua Century Press) 1895. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Canyons Colorado*. **Notes** *Orig. ed.*: 1895, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[15\]-400. *Copy*: MO. – A revised and enlarged edition of the *Expl. Colorado Riv.*, Warman 41. *Facsimile ed*.: 1964, p. \[i\*\], frontisp., \[i\]-xiv, \[15\]-400. *Copy*: US.