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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] ==

'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Powell, John Wesley}}'''. American geologist and ethnologist, b. March 24, 1834, at Mt. Morris, N.Y.; d. in Haven, Me., Sept. 23, 1902. Educ. at Illinois and Oberlin Colleges. Lost right arm in Civil War, during which he became major. Especially interested in geology {{Page aside|540}}and appointed, 1865, prof, of geology and curator of the museum in Illinois Wesleyan Univ, of Bloomington, and later at the Normal Univ. Began in 1867 a series of expeditions to the Rocky Mts. and the canyons of Green and Colorado Rivers, incl. a daring three months’ journey through the Grand Canyon, 1869. Founded and directed (1879) a bureau of ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, and contributed comprehensive studies of the Indians and their languages. His work led to a U. S. Government geographical and geological survey of the Rockies (1870-79). In the period of 1881-94, Powell was director of the geological survey. Author of a number of works dealing with American geology.

{{Quote source
|author = Boris de Zirkoff
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings
|detail = vol. 2, pp. 539-540
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#539
}}