IN MEMORIAM : PROF. E. HULL, F.R.S. 



By the death of Professor Edward Hull, on October 18th, 1917, 

 the Victoria Institute loses a Life Member who during long years 

 took a deep interest in its work. Having joined the Institute in 

 1888, he first served on the Council, then performed the duties 

 of Secretary, and later on sustained the dignity of Vice-President. 

 In all these positions, during a period of thirty years, he rendered 

 splendid ser^^ice ; and the many papers which he read before 

 the Institute — some on questions purely scientific, others on 

 issues more definitely philosophic and spiritual — revealed the 

 man who combined intellectual strength vrith. the true faith of 

 a Christian. 



Professor Hull was born in xlntrim, and educated at Trinity 

 College, Dubhn. In 1850 he was appointed to the Geological 

 Sur\^ey of the United Kingdom ; in 1867 he became District 

 Surveyor in the Scottish Branch of the Survey ; and two years 

 later returned to the Sister Isle to undertake the duties of Director 

 of the Geological Survey of Ireland. This last-named post he 

 held till his retirement from official life, after a se^^^ce of forty 

 years. He was for a long period Professor of Geology in the 

 Royal College of Science in Dubhn, and in 1873 President of the 

 Royal Geological Society of Ireland. 



The Professor made important contributions to our knowledge 

 of the geology of Palestine. He went to that country in 1883, 

 under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund, as leader 

 of an expedition which included the future Lord Kitchener as 

 one of its staff ; the object of research beiiig to report on the 

 region of Mount Seir, Sinai, and Western Palestine. His papers 

 read before the Members of the Victoria Institute were largely 

 the fruit of this important part of his life-work. 



After retiring from official hfe in 1891, Professor Hull settled 

 in the Metropohs, but he remained as fully occupied as ever 

 before, preparing memoirs of his varied researches, and writing 

 books on related subjects. Taken as a whole, his books and 

 papers exceeded 250 in number, and bear impressive \^Ttness 

 to his achievements as a scientist of untiring industr}\ Many 

 who were not privileged to meet him in that sphere rejoiced to 

 know him as a man of high principle, ever ready, as he was highly 

 competent, to show the bearing of scientific investigation upon 

 the ways and Word of Almighty God. In this hght he was 

 specially known to the Members and Associates of the Victoria 

 Institute, who will long lament the loss of a true friend and x^ise 

 counsellor. 



