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James Hall

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
James Hall 1811-98, American geologist and paleontologist, b. Hingham, Mass., grad. Rensselaer School (later Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), 1832. An authority on stratigraphy and invertebrate paleontology, he joined the New York state geological survey in 1836 and in 1839 became state geologist for New York. He wrote Paleontology of New York (8 vol. in 13, 1847-94), a monumental report on the paleontology of the state; his work formed the basis for the later geological histories of North America. He also served briefly as state geologist for Iowa and Wisconsin and was director (1866-94)... Read more
James Hall Cone
James Hall Cone The American theologian James Hall Cone (born 1938) was the author of the first major attempt...exponent of Black theology in the decades following the 1960s. James Hall Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas, on August 5, 1938. After... Read more
Hall, James, Jr
Hall, James, Jr (1811–98) James Hall, Jr became recognized as America's foremost palaeontologist, whose...illustrated 13 volumes of The Palaeontology of New York State . In 1843 Hall was appointed State Palaeontologist. So energetic was Hall in building... Read more

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