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Though in good spirits and apparently in reasonably good physical 

 condition when leaving Albany, he was stricken l)y vertigo soon after 

 arriving at the hotel. This attack left him so enfeebled that the local 

 physician urged his return to Albany. He refused, preferring to remain 

 where he was and to await the end, which was likely to come suddenly. 

 His letters gave no intimation of the conditions, but were written as 

 calmly as though life were but beginning. Affairs of the survey received 

 his attention in detail, and a long letter respecting them was written 

 only two days before his death, when he was confined to his bed. 



The end came as he appears to have expected. On Sunday afternoon, 

 August 7, a servant carried a cup of beef tea to him and placed it near 

 his bed. As she left the room she heard a crash, and, returning, found 

 him lying on the floor beside the bed, dead. The effort to take the cup 

 from the chair had brought on cerebral apoplexy, causing immediate 

 and painless death. He lies buried in Albany, New York. 



In 1843 Professor Hall married Susan, daughter of John Aiken, a 

 lawyer of Troy, New York. She died April 25, 1895. Four children, 

 two daughters and two sons, survive him. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HALL* 



Books 



1 . Geology of New York : Part iv, comprising the survey of the Fourth Geological 



district. Albany, 1843, 682 pp., maps and plates. 



2. Fremont's exploring expedition : Washington, 1845. Appendix A, Geological 



formations, pp. 295-303 ; B, Organic remains, pp. 304-310, 4 pis. 



3. Palaeontology of New York: Vol. 1, Albany, 1847, pp. xxiii, 338, 100 pis. 



4. Jleport on the geology of the Lake Superior land district : By J. W. Foster and 



J. D. Whitney : 



Lower Silurian system : Washington, 1851, chapter 9, pp. 140-151. 

 Upper Silui'ian and Devonian series: Ibid., chapter 10, pp. 152-166. 

 Description of new and rare species of fossils from the Palseozoic series : 



Ibid., chapter 13, pp. 203-231. 

 Parallelism of the Palpeozoic deposits of Europe and America. Ibid., 

 chapter 18, pp. 285-318. 



5. Stansbury's expedition to the Great Salt lake : Geology and Palaeontology. 



Philadelphia, 1852, pp. 401-414. 



6. Palaeontology of New York: Vol. ii, Albany, 1852, pp. viii, 362, 104 pis. 



7. United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (Emory). Geology and Palaeon- 



tology of the boundary: Washington, 1857, pp. 103, 140, 20 pis. Also pub- 

 lished in American Journal of Science, 2d ser. ; see vol. 24, New Haven, 1857, 

 pp. 72-86. 



*This bibliography, to 1888, was published in the 42d Annual Report of the Trustees of the State 

 Museuni of Natural History, Professor J. M. Clarke brought the entries down to the close. 



