Dall is mentioned several times in "Eye of the Whale" by Dick Russell...
Dall first sailed at age 19 to Alaska on the Western Union Telegraph
expedition, with Scammon, who wrote about whaling and the natural history of
whales. There is a picture of Dall at nineteen, courtesy of Bancroft
Library, UC Berkeley.

this thread is great... I'm trying to id several deep water species of Colus
form the NE Pacific and I have been examining many of Dall's original
descriptions. Several species remain yet undescribed!

Rick Harbo

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> Dall was indeed knowledgeable in many fields as a look at his bibliography
> (1,607 items) will show.  That he was a great malacologist/paleontologist
> is
> not in dispute, but few people are aware that he also had a "down side."
> When the Commission was debating on whether or not to accept Röding's work
> (which upset many Lamarck names in wide usage) Dall wrote the Commission
> that "Bolten's [=Röding's] names have been accepted by all first class
> workers in conchology, and I know of only one man, a German, who objects
> to
> them."  This was despite the fact that Pilsbry had written the Commision
> opposing acceptance.
>
> European workers were not reluctant to question some of Dall's actions.
> In
> one instance, in a review of a Dall paper, Dollfus called Dall's actions
> "déplorable subterfuge."  In that particular case it was an appropriate
> expression.
>
> Dall had a great knowledge of the old literature and the library in the
> Mollusk Department of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian
> Institution) is called "The Dall Library."
>
> dick petit
>
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