though failing health and strength prevented him from attending its 

 meetings during the last year of his term of office. In all he contrib- 

 uted twenty-nine papers to the "Proceedings" of which six dealt with 

 graptolites, nine with the Tertiary Deposits of Victoria (written in 

 conjunction with Dr. G. B. Pritchard) and fourteen with various other 

 palaeontological and geographical subjects. He made a special study 

 of Graptolites and was regarded as the one authority in Australia on 

 this group, his work in connection with which was recognised by the 

 award to him of the "Balance of the Murchison Fund" by the 

 Geological Society of London in 1901. 



Not only did Dr. Hall take a large share in the work of the Royal 

 Society but he devoted much time to that of the Field Naturalist' Club 

 and was closely associated with the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science of which he was Secretary for Victoria from 

 1907 onwards and President of the Geology Section at the Hobart 

 meeting in 1902. During the recent visit of the British Association 

 in 1914 he was local Secretary of the Zoology Section and his wide 

 general knowledge of Australian Zoology and Geology enabled him to 

 be of great service to many visiting, overseas members. 



He was keenly interested in all that referred to the fauna of 

 Australia and took a leading part in securing the reservation of 

 Wilson's Promontory as a National Park, of the Committee of Manage- 

 ment of which he was an active member. 



In 1899 he published a valuable "Catalogue of the Scientific and 

 Technical Periodical Literature in the Libraries of Victoria" and in 

 1911 a second and much enlarged edition of the same. 



He was always ready to place his knowledge, time and services at 

 the disposal not only of institutions and societies engaged in the organ- 

 isation and furtherance of science work but at that of individual 

 workers also and his death at the comparatively early age of 57 leaves 

 a gap which will not easily be filled. In him many of our members 

 have lost a personal friend respected not less on account of the solid, 

 unostentatious work that he did for science in Victoria, than for his 

 modesty of character and generous nature. 



