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for twenty-seven years the State made no allowance for his 
offtce rent and incidental expenses, until it was done in 1871. 
Between 1856 and 1866 appropriations were made for the cost 
of collecting new material; but prior to that this outlay was 
entirely at his own expense, and afterwards the appropriations 
were meagre. For five years, namely, from 1850 to 1855. 
salary and current expenses were absolutely withheld by the 
Legislature, and yet Hall retained his assistants and continued 
the work of the survey bearing nearly the entire expense, thus 
exhausting his resources and incurring serious indebtedness. 
His only way out w-as by selling at a sacrifice 2,coo acres of 
valuable coal and iron lands in southern Ohio, for which he got 
only $15,000, and which ten years later were held at $200,000. 
It is not to be forgotten that, still retaining his work at 
Albany, i'rof. Hall became interested in researches elsewhere. 
His report on the survey of Iowa was, and is, a standard 
authority for the West. The results appeared in a published 
form in 1858 and 1859. His work in Wisconsin was particu- 
larly valuable, the official report being printed in 1862 and 
1864, covering what was done from 1859 to 1863. At its close 
the State was in arrears with him to the amount of $4,000, of 
which Hall accepted seventy per cent in fossils that he him- 
self had collected, only $i,2co being j^aid in cash. 
The name and fame of James Hall are so identified with 
Xew York as to make it necessary for us to remind ourselves 
of the breadth and scope of his explorations outside its limits. 
He was more or less connected with Fremont's exploring ex- 
pedition; Stansbury's expedition to the Great Salt lake; the 
United States and Mexican boundary survey; the geological 
exploration of the fortieth parallel; the geological survey of 
Canada; and is said to have fitted out at his own expense the 
Meek and Hayden expedition to the Black hills. 
A list of Hall's published works is appended to this article, 
naming 42 books, and 260 magazine articles and addresses be- 
fore scientific associations. A glance at this formidable cata- 
logue brings before the eye the names of Ohio, Indiana. 
Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennes- 
see, Georgia, Alabama, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. 
Iowa, and Connecticut — fifteen states besides New York. The 
list also includes numerous special papers on new genera and 
