William Sweetland Dallas (1824–1890) was a British
zoologist and curator. He curated collections at the
British Museum and the
Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and was editor of the ''
Popular Science Review
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''.
Biography
He was appointed Keeper of the
Yorkshire Museum in 1858, at the age of 31 and already married with four children at the time.
Dallas was an editor and translator for the ''
Zoological Record
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'', the ''
Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' and the ''Popular Science Review''. In 1868 he was elected to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society, resulting in his resignation from the role of Keeper.
Notably, he translated ''
Facts and Arguments for Darwin
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'' by
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biologist
Fritz Müller
Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (31 March 1822 – 21 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller, and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, ...
into
English. He also translated
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Prof Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold FRS(For) HFRSE (16 February 1804 – 7 April 1885) was a German physiologist and zoologist. He was responsible for the introduction of the taxa Arthropoda and Rhizopoda, and for defining the taxon Protoz ...
's ''Wahre Parthenogenesis bei Schmetterlingen und Bienen (1856)'' into English as ''On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees''
and created the index for
Charles Darwin's ''
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication''.
Dallas was elected a member of the
Linnean Society in 1849.
He died at Burlington House,
Piccadilly
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on 29 May 1890 and was buried at
West Norwood Cemetery.
Notes
References
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* ''West Norwood Cemetery Dickens Connection'', Friends of
West Norwood Cemetery
1995
External links
*
Biography on Darwin Correspondence Project*
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1824 births
1890 deaths
19th-century British zoologists
Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
People associated with the British Museum
Yorkshire Museum people
Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
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