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42 and that of LL. D. from Hamilton in 1863, and from McGill in 1884. Prof. Hall received the quin- quennial grand prize of $1,000 awarded in 1884 by the Boston society of natural history. In 1840 he was one of the founders of the American associa- tion of geologists and naturalists, and after its growth into the American association for the ad- vancement of science was elected president in 1856, delivering his retiring address, on "Contributions to the Geological History of the American Conti- nent," at the Montreal meeting in 1857. He was one of the original members of the National acade- my of sciences. In 1876 he was one of the founders of the International congress of geologists, and was one of the vice-presidents at the session held in Paris in 1878, also in Bologna in 1881, and in Berlin in 1885. He was elected one of the fifty foreign members of the geological society of Lon- don in 1848, and in 1858 was awarded its Wollaston medal. In 1884 he was elected correspondent of the Academy of sciences in Paris, and he is a mem- ber of many other scientific societies at home and abroad. Besides his larger works, most of which have been referred to, he is the author of nearly 250 separate papers, of which a full list, from 1836 till 1882, is given in the " Thirty-sixth Annual Re- port of the New York Museum of Natural His- tory " (Albany, 1884).

HALL, John, jurist, b. in Waynesboro, Va., in 1767 : d. in Warrenton, N. C, 29 Jan., 1833. He went to North Carolina at an early age. was edu- cated at William and Mary, settled in Warrenton in 1792, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was a judge of the superior court of North Carolina from 1801 till 1818, and of the supreme court from 1818 till 1832. — His son, Edward, a distinguished lawyer, became a judge in 1840.

HALL, John, clergyman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 11 Aug.. 1806. He was educated at University of Pennsylvania, studied law, and in December, 1827, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He relin- quished the practice of law in 1832, was elected manager and subsequently secretary of the Amer- ican Sunday-school union, licensed to preach by the presbytery of Philadelphia in 1839, and or- dained pastor of the 1st church in Trenton, N. J., 11 Aug., 1841. In 1852-'3 he delivered a course of lectures in Princeton theological seminary. He was editor of the " Sunday-School Journal " in 1832-40, of the " Youth's Friend," and has been a frequent contributor to various religious and literary periodicals. He also edited for a time the "Morning Journal" in Philadelphia, lectured at the Smithsonian institution in 1850, and was anni- versary orator of the New Jersey society of the Cincinnati in 1859. He is the author of " Trans- mit ion of Milton's Latin Letters" (Philadelphia, 1829) ; Gaston's " Collection of Scripture Texts on the Christian Faith," corrected and revised (1841) ; " History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton. N. J." (New York, 1859); " Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D." (2 vols., 1860) ; and various works issued by the Presbyterian board of publication and the Sunday-school union.

HALL, John, clergyman, b. in County Armagh, Ireland, 31 July, 1829." He is of Scottish descent. Ho entered Belfast college at the age of thirteen, and, notwithstanding his extreme youth, was re- peatedly Hebrew prize man. He was licensed to preach in 1849, and at once engaged in labor as a missionary in the west of Ireland. In 1852 he was installed pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church at Armagh, and in 1858 was called to the church of Mary's Abbey (now Rutland square) in Dublin. He was an earnest friend of popular education, and received from the queen the honorary appoint- ment of commissioner of education for Ireland. In 1867 he was a delegate from the general assem- bly of the Presbyterian church in Ireland to the Presbyterian churches of the United States, and after his return to Ireland be received a call to the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church in New York, which he accepted, entering upon his labors on 3 Nov., 1867. In 1875 a new church edifice was erected for him, at a cost of about $ 1,000,000, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street. In 1882 he was elected chancellor of the Univer- sity of the city of New York. He was selected to deliver the funeral sermon of Chief-Justice Chase, who belonged to a different denomination. Dr. Hall is the author of " Family Prayers for Four Weeks " (New York. 1868) ; " Papers for Home Reading" (1871) " Familiar Talk to Boys" ; " Questions of the Day" (1873) ; " God's Word through Preaching," Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale seminary (1875); '" Foundation-Stones for Young Builders" (Philadelphia, 1880) ; and " A Christian Home ; How to Make and how to Maintain it " (1883).

HALL, Jonathan Prescott, jurist, b. in Pomfret, Conn., 9 July, 1796; b. in Newport, R. I., 29 Sept., 1862. He was graduated at Yale in 1817, practised law in New York, and during the admin- istrations of Tyler and Fillmore was district attor- ney for the southern district of New York, and was noted as a brilliant orator. He was the author of " Reports of Cases in the Superior Court of the City of New York, 1828-'9 " (2 vols., New York, 1831-'3). HALL, Louisa Jane Park, poet, b. in New- buryport, Mass., 7 Feb., 1802. Her father, James Park, was a physician, but abandoned his profes- sion and removed to Boston in 1804 to edit the "Repertory," a Federalist journal. In 1811 he opened a school for young ladies in Boston, where his daughter received a good education ; but in 1831 he removed with his family to Worcester. She was almost blind for several years, and during this period her father read to her, and assisted in the preparation of her books. In 1840 she married Rev. Edward B. Hall, a Unitarian clergyman of Providence, R. I. Her works are " Miriam," a dra- matic poem, illustrative of the early conflicts of the Christian church, partly written in 1825 (1837); " Joanna of Naples," an historical tale in prose (Boston, 1838) ; and the " Life of Elizabeth Carter." HALL, Lyman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. in Connecticut in 1725; d. in Burke county, Ga., 19 Oct.. 1790. He was graduated at Yale in 1747, studied medicine, and removed to Georgia in 1752, settling in Sun- bury, where he acquired a large practice. He took an active part in the pre - Revolu- tionary move - ments, was a member of the conventions held in Savannah in 1774 and 1775, and was influen- tial in causing Georgia to join the other colonies, parish of St. John to congress, and served till 1780. In 1775 he was elected bv the