Regarding Niko Pucić, where did he mention "Serbocroatian"? As I saw in article about Medo Pucić, I saw no "srpskohrvatski" or "Serbo-Croatian" (the sentence "He also translated literary works from several European languages into Serbo-Croatian" is a POV). 
 Regarding your attitude expressed above ("Dalmatia was not part of Croatia"), I know that's yours wishie-wish, Giove.  
 However - with the reformation of Habsburg Monarchy, the monarchy was divided into Austrian-ruled and Hungarian-ruled part; "Kingdom of Dalmatia" was in the Austrian-ruled part. 
 But, the Croatian-Hungarian Agreement (Hrvatsko-ugarska nagodba) from 1868, the official Monarchy's document, regulated the authonomous status of "Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia". 
 Although "Kingdom of Dalmatia" wasn't de facto reunited with "Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia", "Kingdom of Dalmatia" was de iure part of Triune Kingdom (and mentioned as such in the Agreement). However, Ausria kept de iure Dalmatia away from the rest of Croatia, so Dalmatia was in a kind of ...dual status.  
 Finally, official Austrian and Hungarian policy persistently kept the policy of preventing of full integration of Croatian lands under Croatian name.