208 History of Hingham. 



Edward Everett Hale. 



Sermon at the Installation of Rev. Edward Augustus Morton as associate 

 Pastor with Rev. Calvin Lincoln, of the First Parish in Ilinghani, 

 April 25, 1877. Included in the pamphlet, "Services at the Installa- 

 tion." Hiugham. Published by the Parish. 1877. 



James Hall. 



Born in Hingham, September 12, 1811, and attended the gram- 

 mar school at Hingham Centre, James S. Lewis being at the time 

 teacher. The course of action pursued by the young scholar 

 foreshadowed the man. His only way to success was through 

 personal effort. During one of the winters an evening school 

 was established in the village, which he obtained the means to 

 attend by manual labor between school hours and on Satur- 

 day afternoons. Determined on an education, he went to Troy, 

 N. Y., and there entered the Rensselaer school, graduating in 183*2. 

 He remained in this institution as assistant professor of chemistry 

 and natural science until 1836, when he was made professor of 

 geology. The same year he was appointed assistant geologist for 

 the survey of the second district of the State of New York, and 

 in 1837 was made State geologist in charge of the fourth district. 

 Retaining the title of State geologist, he was placed in charge of 

 the palaeontological part of the work. His results have been em- 

 bodied in five volumes, which were given to the public, 1847-79. 

 His researches have been extended westward to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Professor Hall also held the appointments of State geologist 

 of Iowa in 1855 and of Wisconsin in 1857. The examination and 

 description of the specimens collected for the government have 

 been frequently assigned to him. In 1866 he was appointed 

 director of the New York State Museum, which place, in addi- 

 tion to that of State geologist, he still holds. In connection with 

 this office he has made each year in his annual reports valuable 

 contributions to science. 



He received the degree of A. M. from Union and that of LL.D. 

 from Hamilton in 1863, and from McGill in 1884, and from Har- 

 vard in 1886. Professor Hall received the quinquennial grand 

 prize of -f 1,000 awarded in 1884 by the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. In 1856 he was elected president of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, and in 1878 was one of 

 the vice-presidents of the international congress of geologists held 

 in Paris ; also at Bologna in 1881 and in Berlin in 1885. He was 

 elected one of the fifty foreign members of the Geological Society 

 of London in 1848, and in 1858 was awarded the Wollaston medal. 

 In 1884 he was elected correspondent of the Academy of Sciences 

 in Paris. He also is a member of many other scientific societies 

 at home and abroad. 



His more prominent publications include, — 



