James S. [possibly Sweetland] Dallas

Career Museum Professional / Librarian / Natural Historian / Antiquarian

Biography Son of William Sweetland Dallas. Museum curator and librarian. Assistant secretary, librarian, and curator of the Geological Society of London. Assistant in the library of the Geological Society, 1872; in the library and museum, 1878-9. Curator of the Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 08/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/namedefs/namedef-1178.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dallas

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Bristol Naturalists' Society / Bristol Microscopical Society / Linnean Society / Society of Antiquaries

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Dates active 1853-1916

Donated around 1917

English collections Pair of lady's shoes

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Unknown

English collection size 2

Connections William Johnson Sollas / G.W. Bell / John C. Cutter / Edward Burnett Tylor