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William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North America , and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.
- Charles Whitney Dall, Marcus Healey Dall, Marian Dall
- Exploration of Alaska, malacology, founding the National Geographic Society
- Annette Whitney (married 1880)
Dean of Alaskan explorations, William Healey Dall (1845–1927) began his scientific career as a member of the Scientific Corps of the Alaskan Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865. In 1871, he was appointed to the United States Coast Survey, where he continued his studies of Alaska and the northern Pacific Coast. Dall left the Coast Survey in 1884 to accept the rank of Paleontologist ...
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Biographical History. Dean of Alaskan explorations and one of the last of the disappearing class of "systematic naturalists," which included Agassiz, Baird, and Audubon, William H. Dall (1845-1927) was born on August 21st, in Boston to Charles Henry Appleton Dall, a Unitarian minister, and Caroline Wells (Healey), a feminist and publicist.
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William Healey Dall was affiliated with the Smithsonian for sixty-two years, first as a scientific assistant on the 1865 Western Union Telegraph Expedition and later as Honorary Curator of Mollusks for the US National Museum. The images of the 1865 expedition staff show a stark contrast between the very young but formal Dall and his adventurous leader, Robert Kennicott.
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WILLIAM HEALEY DALL (1845-1927). Fellow in Class II, Section 3, 1912. William Healey Dali was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August. 21, 1845, and died at the Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C, March 27, 1927. His father, the Reverend Charles Henry Appleton Dali, was a missionary to India and his mother, Caroline Healey, a.
William Healey Dall 1845-1927. William Healey Dall. Source: Smithsonian Archives. When he was in high school, William Healey Dall fell in love -- with a book. The Report of the Invertebrata of ...
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.
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