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)

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "J. D. W."

Works

Contributions to EB9

"California," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 4) (1878)
"United States," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (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)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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