Born in Cumberland on 9th April 1883 he was a botanist, cecidologist (plant galls) and editor of the North Western Naturalist. No obituary was ever published. He died In Colwyn Bay on 20th March 1963. Educated in Preston at the Harris Institute, moving to Liverpool in 1901 to take up a post as science demonstrator at Liverpool College and then at other institutions over the next few years. He was appointed Science Master at Bebington College in 1904 and then Holt School in 1908 before moving to take up a post at Holme Grammar School, Manchester in 1917. From 1920 to 1930 he taught at Mexborough School in Doncaster.
He wrote on natural history under the pseudonym “Twayblade” for the Liverpool Courier. He edited North Western Naturalist from 1926 to 1955.
One of the initiators of the Liverpool Botanical Society he was the first secretary and became President in 1914 and 1918.
Wrote papers on the flowering plants of Denbighshire and Flintshire in the Journal of Botany 1906 to 1913, and he was supposedly writing a Flora, but one never appeared. He also studied Plant Galls and wrote many papers on this subject. Further information can be found in
Greenwood, B.D. (1977). The papers of Arthur Augustine Dallman (1883- 1963). Journal of the Society Bibliography Natural History. 8 (2). p176-179.
Some Publications
Dallman, A.A, (1907). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 45 p 138 – 153. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1907.pdf
Dallman A.A. (1908). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 46. p 187-196, 222-230.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1908.pdf
Dallman, A.A, (1910). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany . 48. p 40-53, 73-77, 90-98.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/1/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1910). Flintshire Plants. Journal of Botany 48. p 204-5.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/250/mode/1up
Dallman A.A.(1911). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 49. p 8-14.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36195#page/18/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1913). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 51. supplement p1-43.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35901#page/495/mode/1up
Dallman, A. A. (1935) West Yorkshire Flowering Plants. North Western Naturalist, 10 (3): 265-266.
Dallman, A.A. (Ed.) (1939) The vegetation of Craven in Wharfedale, with its adjacencies in
Aire and Ribble: an analysis of its flora in advent and decline, by F.A. Lees. The Northwestern
Naturalist (supplement) 14, 1-111.
Dallman, AA. And Wood, M.H. (1909). A bibliographical list of deceased Lancashire Botanists. Transactions of the Liverpool Botanical Society. [alphabetical list with brief biography and publications list).
Plant Galls
Dallman,A.A, (1919). Some Zooecidia of South Denbighshire. Naturalist. : p 164-166. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/197963#page/188/mode/1up
Dallman,A.A, (1921). Plant Galls (Zooecidia) of Cheshire North Western Naturalist. 14: p 50-70, 97-125.
Dallman, A.A. (1925). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 63, p 98-104.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1925.pdf
Dallman, A.A. (1929). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 67, p161-170. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1929.pdf
More of his Cumbrian References are at http://www.carlislenats.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/Bibliography%20Cumb%20nat%20hist%20MAY%202010.pdf (page 117)
Archives Are at National Museums Liverpool. 1899 – 1959. Correspondence, diaries, photographic glass slides and papers. Acquired 21st May 1963 by purchase. His herbaria are at Liverpool and Manchester http://herbariaunited.org/collector/1571/
