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According to Wikipedia , James Hall Jr. was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of paleontology in the United States. Early life James Hall was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, the oldest of four children. His parents, James Hall Sr. and Sousanna Dourdain Hall, had emigrated from England two years earlier. Hall developed an early interest in science and enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a recently established college that emphasized student participation and focused on science. He was a student of Amos Eaton and Ebenezer Emmons, both notable geologists. Hall graduated with honors in 1832, received his master's degree in 1833, and remained at Rensselaer to teach chemistry and later geology.
(See a Problem?) James Hall 's Published Works Published Works An introduction to the study of the genera of Palaeozoic Brachiopoda Descriptions of New Species of Fossils, from the Cretaceous Formations of Nebraska, with Observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. compressus, and the Progressive Development of the Septa in Baculites, Ammonites, and Scaphites Descriptions of new species of fossils (16)On new forms of marine algae from the Trenton Limestone, with observations on Buthograptus laxus Hall. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 6, article 16. (10)Illustrations of Devonian fossils, : corals of the Upper Helderberg and Hamilton groups / by James Hall. Report of the Superintendent of the Geological Survey, exhibiting the progress of the work, January 1, 1861. Report on the geological survey of Wisconsin (6)Descriptions of the Species of Fossils Found in the Niagara Group at Waldron, Indiana (6)Notice of a new crinoid and a new mollusk from the Portage rocks of New York. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 21, article 2. (5)Palæontology of New-York ... / by James Hall. Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume IV: Palæontoloy, Part I; Palæontology, Part II; Ornithology, Part III Notes upon the Geology of Some Portions of Minnesota, from St. Paul to the Western Part of the State Map illustrating the general geological features of the country west of the Mississippi River. (1)Tables of organic remains : from the report on the geology of the fourth district of New York / Document o [sic]: report of State Geologist Hall for 1860 (0)Document o: report of the commissioners of the geological survey for 1858 (0)A memoir on the Palaeozoic reticulate sponges constituting the family Dictyospongidae / by James Hall ; in collaboration with John M. Clarke. Description of a new genus of inarticulate brachiopodous shell. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 3, article 6. (0)Ceratiocaridæ from the upper Devonian measures in Warren County Description of a new genus of fossil brachiopod from the Lower Helderberg limestones. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 13. (0)Geological survey of Wisconsin, 1859-1863. Palaeontology. Part third (0)Part I. Palæontology. By F. B. Meek. Part II. Palæontology. By James Hall and R. P. Whitfield. Part III. Ornithology. By Robert Ridgway... Semper's Amimal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence (1881) Part 1. Palaeontology (0)On the occurrence of an internal convoluted plate within the body of certain species of Crinoidea (1866) IV.—On the Relations of the Middle and Upper Silurian (Clinton, Niagara, and Helderberg) Rocks of the United States (1872) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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