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William Healey Dall

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Born: August 20 1845

Died: 2626 03 19271927

William Healey Dall 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 America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.

Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution.

William Healey Dall

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 20 1845

Died: 2626 03 19271927

William Healey Dall 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 America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.

Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution.

Books from William Healey Dall

On the Origin of the Innuit

The Yukon Territory: The Narrative of W.H. Dall, Leader of the Expeditions to Alaska in 1866-1868: The Narrative of an Exploration Made in 1887 in the Yukon District by George M. Dawson: Extracts from the Report of an Exploration Made in 1896-1897, by

Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884

Tribes of the Extreme Northwest

Alaska Coal Fields, Bogosloff Volcano, Corral Hollow, California, 1895 1895 [Leather Bound]

... Geology of Oahu

American Marine Conchology