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Obituary: Knut Dahl’ the Emu 51 (1951), P 1897–1898 Dyr of vildmaend: Reiser i Sydafrika og Nord-Vest D Australien. [Norwegian] 2 vols in 1. Kristiania: Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag. Description: viii, 462, illus., map. This is presumably an ed. which combines the preceding two items. D’Albertis, Luigi Maria Dahl, Knut (1871–1951) See Albertis. Dickison, Dudley J. ‘Obituary: Knut Dahl’ The Emu 51 (1951), p. 177–178. Dall, William Healey (1845–1927) W.F. Woodring, ‘William Healey Dall’. Biographical The Norwegian zoologist Knut Dahl was born on Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 1958. 28 October, 1871 and studied at Oslo University. In 1893–1894 he hunted big game in South Africa. At the The American naturalist and explorer William end of March 1894 he went with his taxidermist Ingel Healey Dall was born on 21 August, 1845 in Boston, Holm to Adelaide and Sydney, and then travelled to Massachusetts, and died on 27 March, 1927 in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Dahl and Holm Washington D.C. made their headquarters for several months at Uniya Dall’s father, a Unitarian minister with an interest in Mission Station on the Daly River, making long trips natural history, introduced Dall to Louis Agassiz.* up and down the river in a dinghy. Later he made a Dall attended The English High School in Boston, but trip to the mouth of the Adelaide River, and visited left this in his last year when he was 17 to do work Victoria River and South Alligator River; where he on zoology under Louis Agassiz and anatomy under discovered three new birds. Jeffries Wyman, afterwards working for a time as He then travelled to Batavia (now Djakarta) and office boy with a small shipping firm that traded with to Singapore, after which he returned to Western West-Africa. In 1863 he moved to Chicago and worked Australia, to Roebuck Bay. His bases there were the as a clerk at the Land Office of the Illinois Central Hill Station, 30 km north of Broome, and an outlying Railroad. He later spent a field season in the explorat cattle station called Loomingoon. He left Roebuck Bay ion for iron in Northern Michigan, his first geological in March 1897 and was back in Norway by 4 May, work. A book by A.A. Gould, A report on the inverte- 1897. brates of Massachusetts, introduced him to what would Afterwards Dahl became an ichthyologist. He was sta- become one of his main interests in zoology, namely tioned at Trondhjem and Bergen, and was appointed malacology. Professor of Pisciculture at the Agricultural College of At the Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences Oslo. He was the author of a great number of papers he came into contact with its director, the biolo- and two books on salmon and trout. gist Robert Kennicott (1835–1866). When Kennicott Dahl died on 11 June, 1951. was chosen as director of the Scientific Corps of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to explore 1897 Alaska (then still Russian) to find an overland route Reiser i Sydafrika. [Norwegian] Kristiania: Alb. for a telegraph cable through Alaska and Siberia to Cammermeyers Forlag. Description: viii, 226, illus., Europe, Dall was asked to join as a naturalist. The map. expedition had been organized because the first ¶¶ 1944, Afrikanske jakter. Oslo: Cappelen. Description: transatlantic cable had broken and there were doubts 233. [Presumably this is a new ed. of the preceding as to whether a cable across the Atlantic would be a item.] success. The expedition lasted from July 1865 to July 1867, but 1898 Dall continued exploring until December 1868. When Reiser i nord-vest-Australien. [Norwegian] Kristiania: Kennicott died at Nulato on the Yukon in May 1866 Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag. and the news of Kennicott’s death reached the rest of [1924], Blandt Australiens Vilde. Kristiania: Cappelen. the expedition, Dall was appointed his successor. Dall Description: 307, illus. explored the area from Norton Sound and Norton Bay English: to the Yukon, and ascended the river to Fort Yukon, ¶¶ 1926, In savage Australia: an account of a hunting the first American to reach Fort Yukon from the sea. and collecting expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier On this trip he was accompanied by the British artist Land. Foreword by Fridtjof Nansen, Translated by the Frederic Whymper, a brother of the famous mountain- author. London: Philip Allan. Description: xii, 326, pl. eer Edward Whymper.* ¶¶ 1927, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. American In July 1867 the news that the second transatlan- edition of the preceding. tic cable was functioning well put an end to the 112 | Dahl, Knut expedition. Dall, however, asked and obtained permis- Society for Nautical Research, 1924, p. 366–381 ■ Bonner sion to complete his exploration of the lower Yukon 1934 ■ George 1999 ■ Gill 1997 ■ Marchant 1988 ■ and its delta, at his own expense. Preston & Preston 2004 ■ Shipman 1962 ■ Wilkinson After the expedition Dall worked on his collections at 1929 ■ G.C. Williams, ‘William Dampier, Pre-Linnaean the Smithsonian Institution. He wrote about his expe- Explorer, Naturalist, Buccaneer’, Proceedings of the riences and added other information on Alaska in his California Academy of Sciences 55 (Suppl. II), November book Alaska and its resources (1870). 2004. Dall’s work in Alaska covered many fields, but his chief interest was marine zoology, in particular mol- The English buccaneer and explorer William Dampier luscs and brachiopods. After Alaska had become was born in August 1651 at East Coker, Somerset. His American territory in 1867, Dall managed to get father died when he was six or seven years old, his appointed as ‘acting assistant’ on the Coast Survey in mother when he was fourteen. After visiting the Latin 1871, also using the appointment as an opportunity to School he was apprenticed to a seaman at Weymouth enlarge his Alaskan collections. From 1871 to 1880 he at the age of eighteen according to his own wishes. led four scientific cruises. In 1880 he married Annette In the years 1669–1678 he worked as a seaman, Whitney and the young couple settled in Washington, briefly fought in the Third Anglo-Dutch war, and D.C.. In 1881 he was promoted to ‘assistant’ (instead was for a while an unsuccessful trader in logwood of ‘acting assistant’) of the Coast Survey. The (Haematoxylon campechianum), an important source Smithsonian had no funds to employ a salaried cura- of red dye. The years 1679–1691 were mainly spent tor of molluscs, but Dall held the position of honorary buccaneering, years of hope, disappointment and curator. In 1884 he resigned from the Coast Survey defection. and joined the U.S. Geological Survey as a palaeontol- In 1686 he performed an extraordinary feat of nav- ogist, which resulted in some important contributions igation, serving as navigator on the buccaneer ship to palaeontology, culminating in his Contributions to ‘Cygnet’ under captain Charles Swan, when he guided the tertiary fauna of Florida (1890–1903). In 1899 he par- the ship from Corrientes in Mexico to Guam in the ticipated in the Harriman Alaska Expedition, of which Pacific, a voyage of 6,000 miles in a little over seven John Muir* was also a member. In addition he made weeks. In 1687 the ship touched the coast of Australia, many field trips on behalf of his paleontological work, the first English ship to do so. Dampier left the Cygnet in the Northwest, in Florida and in Georgia. He retired at Great Nicobar Island, arriving in Acin (North from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1925. Sumatra) in May 1688. The next eighteen months Dall received many honours, including three honor- he explored and traded in Southeast Asia: Vietnam, ary degrees. He was elected a member of the National Melaka (Malacca) and India. He arrived in England Academy of Sciences. in September 1691 and had thus circumnavigated the world. 1870 For a time he served as navigator on a trading ship of a Alaska and its resources. Boston: Lee and Shepard. group of four. The flagship was captured by a bucca- Description: xii, 627, [1], [15] ll. of pl. (1 fold.), map; neer and Dampier was later accused of having helped 25 cm. Reprinted 1897. the buccaneers; the ship on which he sailed was not ¶¶ 1870a, London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston. taken and he stayed at board until the term of his con- Description: xii, 627, illus., fold. map, 24 cm. tract ended in February 1695. Later he sued for wages ¶¶ 1898, The Yukon territory: the narrative of W.H. Dall, that were still outstanding. leader of the expeditions to Alaska in 1866–1868. The Dampier carefully kept journals of all his experiences, narrative of an exploration made in 1887 in the Yukon often taking great pains to keep them safe. In 1697 he district by G.M. Dawson [...] Extracts from the report of published his diaries as New voyage around the world. an exploration made in 1896–1897 by William Ogilvie. The British Admiralty was impressed and in 1699 Introduction by F.M. Trimmer. London: Downey & Co. Dampier was given command of the ‘Roebuck’, with Description: xiv, 438, 22 ll. of pl., fold. map in pocket, a commission to explore the east coast of Australia. 25 cm. This is a facsimile reproduction of the narrative Originally he wanted to sail around Cape Horn, but part of Alaska and its resources, supplemented with two as he was not able to set off before January, which other reports concerning the Yukon Territory. meant the auspicious season for rounding Cape Horn ¶¶ 1970, facs. of the preceding. New York: Arno Press. was already over, he went via the Cape of Good ¶¶ 1975, facs.
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