Author:Josiah Dwight Whitney

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Josiah Dwight Whitney
(1819–1896)

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United States geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874)

Works

“California” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
“United States” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888). (in part)

Works about Whitney

"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Whitney, Josiah Dwight," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

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