William Dallas

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William Sweetland Dallas
FLS
Born1824 (1824)
Died29 May 1890(1890-05-29) (aged 65–66)
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Occupations
  • Zoologist
  • Museum curator
Academic work
Institutions
  • Yorkshire Museum
  • British Museum

William Sweetland Dallas FLS (1824–1890) was a British zoologist who studied the insect collections at the British Museum, and served as an assistant secretary of the Geological Society of London and a Keeper of the museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, apart from being an editor of the Popular Science Review as well as the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. He translated several biology books from German into English.

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