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land, April 13, 1847. He was graduated at the University of Oxford (Christ church) B.A. 1869; M.A. 1872. He was ordained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1871 by the bishop of Oxford, as a mem- ber of the Society of the mission priests of St. John the Evangelist, better known as the " Cowley fathers," and was licensed to preach in the diocese of Oxford. The Cowley fathers take monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and live in communities devoting themselves especially to missionary and what might be called "revival" work in the Anglican communion. When the order decided to establish mission work in America he was sent over as one of the sub- ordinate priests and in 1874 was made assistant minister in the Church of the Advent, Boston, and in 1882 became minister of the Mission church of St. John the Evangelist in that city and provin- cial superior of the society in the United States. He continued his work in Boston for ten years. In 1891, after Phillips Brooks was elected bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, Father Hall was recalled by the authorities of the society to Eng- land. This action raised a storm in the diocese of Massachusetts, and when the death of Bishop Brooks, Jan. 23, 1893, caused a vacancj' Father Hall's name was put forward for election to the see, but without success. The diocese of Vermont however elected him bishop of that diocese and he was consecrated Feb. 2, 1894, by Bishops Xeeley, Niles, Coleman, Grafton, and Lawrence and Arch- bishop Lewis of Ontario. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Oxford in 1893. He is the author of: The Virgin Mother (1894); The Church's Discipline concerning Marriage and Divorce, a charge delivered to the diocese ( 1896) ; Christ's Temptation and Ours, the Baldwin lec- tures at Ann Arbor (1897) ; many devotional and doctrinal publications, and contributions to church periodicals.

HALL, Asaph, astronomer, was born in Goshen, Conn., Oct. 15, 1829; son of Asaph and Hannah C. (Palmer) Hall: grandson of Asaph Hall, who was born in Wallingford, Conn., 1735, and of Esther McXair of Scotch birth; and a descendant of John Hall and Jane Woollen, who came from England to New Haven in 1638. He was given a common school education^ worked on a farm and was a carpenter, 1845-53. He then studied at Norfolk academy and taught school in Ohio. He attended the University of Michigan, 1856-57, where he studied astronomy under Brun- now ; was under Prof. W. C. Bond as student and assistant, 1857-59, and under Prof. George P. Bond, 1859-62; was aide at the U.S. naval obser- vatory. Washington, D.C., 1862-63; was appointed professor of mathematics in the U.S. navy with relative rank of captain in 1863, and as professor in the U.S. naval observatory had charge of the

great equatorial telescope, 1875-91. He observed the solar eclipse from Bering sea, 1869, and Sicily, 1870 ; and the transit of Venus at Vladisvostok. Siberia, 1874, and at San Antonio, Texas, 1882, where he was chief astronomer of the party. He discovered a satellite of Mars, Aug. 11, 1877, and a second satellite in- terior to the first the following week. These discoveries

were made public by Admiral Kodgers, and Professor Hall named the two moons, Deimos and Phobos, "attendants of the god of war " according to Homer. He annoimced impor- tant observations of double stars and de- termination of the orbits of the moons to Saturn during 1880-91. He was retired from active service in the U.S. navy in 1891, having reached the age limit. He was lecturer on theo- retical astronomy at Harvard, 1897-99. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in 1875; a fellow of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences ; a member of the Amer- ican philosophical society ; honorary member of the New York academy' of science ; foreign asso- ciate of the Royal astronomical society, London, England; and corresponding member of the Academy of science (Institute de France) and of the Imperial academy of science (St. Petersburg). He was made home secretarj^ of the National academy of science in 1883, succeeding Gen. Francis A. Walker as vice-president in 1897 ; was elected a member of the Washington national monument society in 1888; and was associate director of the Washburn observatorv', Madison, Wis, 1878-79. In 1879 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal astronomical society of Lon- don and the Lalaudi prize of the French academy for his discovery and observations of the satellites of Mars and his determination of their orbits. He was also awarded the Arago gold medal of the French academy, and was made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1896. He received the honor- ary degree of Ph.D. from Hamilton in 1878; that of LL.D. from Yale in 1879, and from'Harvard in 1886, and that of A.M. from Harvard in 1879. He is the author of contributions to scientific periodicals.

HALL, Baynard Rush, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1798; son of Dr. John Hall, a surgeon on the staff of General Wasliington. He was graduated from Union college in 1820,