William Healey Dall
1845–1927
American natural historian, palaeontologist, and malacologist. Mentored in malacology by Louis Agassiz and others. In 1865, worked with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, preparing to lay an intercontinental telegraph line through the Yukon and Alaska across the Bering Straits to Siberia. Collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution in California, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Siberia; became director of the scientific corps in 1866. Published Alaska and its resources (1870). Appointed acting assistant to the US Coast Survey, 1871, with responsibility for surveying the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Palaeontologist, US Geological Survey, 1884–1923. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 1899. Professor, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, 1893–1927.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
