Le dictionnaire : les malacologues célèbres - W.H. Dall

• Conservateur au département de Malacologie de l'USNM (United States National Museum) de 1869 à 1914 (en 1914 Paul BARTSCH lui succéda), Dall fut Conservateur Honoraire de 1881 jusqu'à sa mort, en 1927.
• Chercheur invétéré, il ne décrivit pas moins de 5302 espèces ou sous-espèces de mollusques, approchant les 5680 taxa subgénériques décrits par Pilsbry, un autre "grand" de la malacologie.

• 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80) by the U.S. Coast Guard Survey steamer "Blake"... Report on the Mollusca, Part 2. Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40.
• 1889. A preliminary catalogue of the shell-bearing marine mollusks and brachiopods of the south-eastern coast of the United Sates, with illustrations of many of the species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 37: 1-221, pls. 1-74.
• 1909. Report on a collection of shells from Peru, with a summary of the littoral marine Mollusca of the Peruvian zoological province. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 37(1704): 147-294, pls. 20-28.
• 1915. A monograph of the molluscan fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax zone of the Oligocene of Tampa, Florida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 90: 1-173, pls. 1-26.
• 1921. Summary of the marine shell-bearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America, from San Diego to the Polar seas, mostly from the U.S. National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 112: 1-217, pls. 1-22.

BOSS, K.J. , ROSEWATER, J. & RUHOFF, F.A., 1968. The zoological taxa of William Healey Dall. U.S. National Museum. Bulletin 287, 427 pp.

KOSUGE, S., 1972. Illustrations of type specimens of molluscs described by William Healey Dall (North-Western Pacific Gastropoda). National Science Museum, Tokyo, 29 pls.

LINDBERG, D.R., 1998. William Healey Dall : A Neo-Lamarckian view of molluscan evolution. The Veliger 41: 227-238.