William Sweetland Dallas
Entomologist, author and translator. Prepared lists of insects for the British Museum, 1847–58. Curator of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's museum, 1858–68. Assistant secretary to the Geological Society of London, 1868–90. Translated Fritz Müller, Für Darwin (1869); prepared the index for Variation and prepared the glossary for Origin, edition 6 6th ed. Editor, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1868–90, Popular Science Review, 1877–80.
Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 Geol. Mag n.s. decade 3, Vol. 7 1890: 333–6 Modern English biography Sarjeant, W. A. S. 1980–96
(See the bibliography for full references to sources)