William Healey Dall était un naturaliste américain et l'un des premiers explorateurs scientifiques de l'intérieur de l'Alaska. Il s'est fait connaître par ses descriptions de nombreux mollusques du nord-ouest du Pacifique de l'Amérique et fut pendant de nombreuses années la plus éminente autorité américaine sur les mollusques vivants et fossiles. Ses vastes contributions scientifiques ont également englobé l'ornithologie, la zoologie des vertébrés et des invertébrés, l'anthropologie, l'océanographie et la paléontologie. Il a également effectué des observations météorologiques en Alaska pour la Smithsonian Institution.
The Miocene Of Astoria And Coos Bay, Oregon (1909)
The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance despite potential imperfections like marks and notations. It aims to protect and promote cultural literature by providing an affordable, high-quality modern edition that remains true to the original.
A report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Nashville meeting, August 31, 1877
Focusing on the scientific classification systems in zoology and botany, this report discusses the standards and practices of naming organisms. Presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science during their 1877 Nashville meeting, it provides insights into the nomenclature challenges and resolutions of the time. This reprint preserves the original content, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the historical context of biological classification.
"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Seattle, Chief of Suquamish and Duwamish tribes (19th Century)Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and, Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon (1877) by William Dall and George Gibbs, is the first volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this first volume, two prominent nineteenth-century naturalists provide an overview of the Alaskan and Northwestern tribes, detail on tribal vocabularies, and information about relationships and succession within the tribes. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.