William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North
William Healey Dall 1845 1927
Village on the lower Yukon during fishing season, June 1868, from an original sketch by Dall
Title page of "A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks" (1909)
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός, meaning "soft", and λόγος, meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca, the second-largest phylum of animal
William Healey Dall
…William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North America, and was for…
A bigfin reef squid displaying considerably developed ocular, locomotive, and bioluminescent organs, all particularly of interest to the malacological study of its class Cephalopoda
Malacological Museum in Makarska, Croatia (entrance)