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40 of Sanskrit, and that of Indian jurisprudence in King's college, and also filled other offices. In 1869 he removed to Marlesford, Suffolk, where he still (188?) resides. Prof. Hall was the first Ameri- can to edit (in 1852) a Sanskrit text. He has also discovered several interesting Sanskrit works sup- posed to have been lost, such as " Bharata's Naty- asastra," the " Harshacharita," and a complete copy of the valuable " Brihaddevata," of which only a small fragment was previously known to exist. The various Sanskrit inscriptions that he has de- ciphered and translated throw much new light on the history of ancient India. He is at present one of the editors of the new English dictionary that is in course of publication at Oxford under the supervision of James A. H. Murray. Prof. Hall's principal works are, Sanskrit : " The Atmabodha, with its Commentary, and the Tattvabodha " (Mirzapore, 1852) ; " The Sankhyapravachana " (Calcutta, 1856) ; " The Siiryasiddhanta " and " The Vasavadatta " (Calcutta, 1859) ; " The Sankhyasara " (Calcutta, 1862), and " The Dasariipa, with its Com- mentary, and Four Chapters of Bharata's Natya- sastra " (Calcutta, 1865). Hindi : " The Tarkasan- graha, translated into Hindi from the Sanskrit and English " (Allahabad, 1850) ; and " The Siddhanta- sangraha " (Agra, 1855). Prof. Hall has also edited Dr. J. R. Ballantyne's "Hindi Grammar" (Lon- don, 1868), and published a " Reader " (Hertford, 1870) in that language. Besides other works of a similar character, he has issued " Lectures on the Nyaya Philosophy, Sanskrit and English " (Ben- ares, 1852) ; " A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems, translated from the Hindi and Sanskrit " (Calcutta, 1862) ; " Recent Exempli- fications of False Philology" (New York, 1872); " Modern English " (New York and London, 1873) ; and " On English Adjectives in -able, with Spe- cial Reference to Reliable" (London, 1877). — His brother, Benjamin Homer, author, b. in Troy, N. Y„ 14 Nov., 1830. He was graduated at Har- vard in 1851, and in 1856 was admitted to the bar in Troy, N. Y. He served as city clerk in 1858-9, and was city chamberlain from 1874 till 1877, and again from 1884 till 1885. Mr. Hall has contrib- uted freely to the periodicals of the day, both in prose and verse, and is the author of articles in the " Harvard Book " (Cambridge, 1875), and Sylves- ter's " History of Rensselaer County, N. Y." (Philadelphia, 1880). He has published " A Collection of College Words and Customs" (Cambridge, 1851; revised and enlarged ed., 1856) ; " History of Eastern Vermont, etc." (New York, 1858 ; 2 vols., Albany, 1865); and "Bibliography of the United States: Vermont" (New York, 1860). He has edited " A Tribute by the Citizens of Troy to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln " (Troy, 1865).

HALL, Francis, journalist, b. in Taunton, Somerset, England, 12 March, 1785; d. in New York city, 11 Aug., 1866. He came to the United States when fourteen years of age, and was ap- prenticed to a printer. In 1811 he entered the office of the New York " Commercial Advertiser," and two years afterward became part owner and co-editor of that journal, with which he remained connected for fifty-three years. He was identified with most of the religious and charitable societies of the city, and was an officer of the Methodist missionary society, the Young men's Bible society, the American Bible society, the American tract society, the deaf and dumb institution, and the New York state colonization society. Mr. Hall was for thirty years recording secretary of the Methodist missionary society, and was deputed to visit the Indian missions of Upper Canada in be- half of that body. About 1833 he united with Messrs. Suckley, Innis, and others in organizing the first " pewed " Methodist church in New York. It was called the " First Wesleyan Chapel," and stood in Vestry street. In 1854 Mr. Hall received the degree of LL. D. from Wesleyan university.

HALL, Frederick, teacher, b. in Grafton,"Vt., in November, 1780; d. in Peru, 111., 27 July, 1843. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1803, was a tutor there in 1804-'5, and in Middlebury, Vt., from 1805 till 1806, when he was elected professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there. He remained at Middlebury until 1824, studied medi- cine in 1825-'6, and was graduated at the medical school at Castleton, Vt., in 1827. He afterward held the professorships of chemistry and miner- alogy at Trinity, was president of Mount Hope college near Baltimore, and at his death occupied the chair of chemistry in Columbian college, D. C. Dr. Hall gave to Dartmouth several thousand dol- lars and a valuable cabinet of minerals. He was the author of " Eulogy on Solomon M. Allan " (New York, 1818) ; " Statistics of Middlebury Col- lege," in " Massachusetts Historical Collections," vol. ix. (1840) ; and " Letters from the East and from the West " (Baltimore, 1840).

HALL, George, first mayor of Brooklyn, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 Sept., 1795; d. there, 16 Sept., 1868. He was a printer, and the greater portion of his life was devoted to the interests of his native city, of which he was a trustee at the time of its incorporation, and under that act became its first mayor. He was an earnest advocate of temper- ance, and did good service in the cause of that re- form. — His son, George B., soldier, b. in Brooklyn in 1826, d. there, 24 May, 1864, entered the New York militia as a private, and rapidly rose through several grades. At the beginning of the Mexican war he was appointed lieutenant in the first regi- ment of New York volunteers, and served at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Churubusco. In 1850 he was commissioned major of the 13th militia regiment, and the following year lieuten- ant-colonel. He was a clerk in New York at the beginning of the civil war, and engaged in raising troops. He was elected colonel of the 27th New York regiment, and participated in many engage- ments, from that of the Stafford raid of 1862 to the battle of Fredericksburg.

HALL, George Henry, artist, b. in Manchester, N. H., 21 Sept., 1825. His father removed to Bos- ton when the son was four years old. In 1849 George went to Diisseldorf, studied art one year, and removed to Paris, and afterward to Rome, where he opened a studio. In 1852 he returned to the United States and settled in New York city, where he now resides (1887). He was elected an associate in 1853, and in 1868 a member, of the National academy of design. Mr. Hall has visited Spain several times, and spent a year in study in Egypt. His specialties are still-life and figures. He has exhibited at the National academy " Pre- cious Lading," a Spanish scene (1868) ; " Thursday Fair at Seville " (1869) ; " A Young Lady of Se- ville and her Duenna " and " Lilacs " (1870) ; " The Four Seasons" (1871); "The Roman Fountain" (1874) ; " Autumn " (1877) ; and " Winter," " A Rug Bazaar at Cairo," " Oven at Pompeii " (1887), and " Pomegranates and Grapes " (1887).

HALL, Henry Bryan, engraver, b. in London, England, 11 March, 1808: d. in Morrisania, N. Y., 28 April, 1884. For many years he was employed by the historical engraver to the queen, and executed all the portrait work in the large plates of that engraver, among them " The Coronation of