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Hall, James, 1811-1898

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Personal name headingHall, James, 1811-1898
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Associated placeAlbany (N.Y.)
Birth date1811-09-12
Death date1898-08-07
AffiliationNew York State Museum of Natural History
Profession or occupationPaleontologists Geologists
Found inLCCN 01-2522: His Preliminary notice of the lamellibranchiate shells of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung goups, 1884 (hdg.: Hall, James, 1811-1898; usage: James Hall)
Dana J.D. Manual of geology, 1863: p. 7 (Professor Hall)
LC data base, 4-29-87 (hdg.: Hall, James, 1811-1898; usage: James Hall)
Hall, James. Report on building stones, 1868: t.p. (Prof. James Hall)
Hall, James. Bryozoans of the Upper Helderberg and Hamilton groups, 1881: title page (James Hall) card tipped in before title page (James Hall, N.Y. State Museum Natural History, Albany, N.Y.)
Hall, James. Note upon the genus Palæaster and other fossil starfishes, 1866: title page (James Hall, State Geologist)
Encyclopædia Britannica, January 28, 2016 (James Hall, American geologist; born Sept. 12, 1811, Hingham, Mass., U.S.; died Aug. 7, 1898, Bethlehem, N.H.; professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1832-1836; appointed state geologist for the Geological Survey of New York in 1836; became director of the Museum of Natural History, Albany, N.Y., in 1871; state geologist of Iowa from 1855 to 1858 and of Wisconsin from 1857 to 1860)