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34: 205:(1909), describing the geology of the country around Melbourne, is a model book of popular science, written without a trace of scientific jargon; there is barely a technical term in its 150 pages. He did not write a large number of papers, but his work on the 249:
by Melbourne University in 1908. Hall's work with Dr Pritchard on the tertiary fossiliferous strata of Victoria, and his own work on the graptolite rocks of Victoria gives him a permanent place in the history of Australian geology.
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Hall took a leading part in the forming of the university science club, and through it met Dr G. B. Pritchard with whom he was later to do valuable work in geology. Hall was a successful director of the
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school of mines from 1890 to 1893, and in the latter year became lecturer in biology at Melbourne university. Hall held this position until his death but found time for many other activities.
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He married Miss Eva Lucie Annie Hill on 21 December 1891, who survived him along with three sons and a daughter.
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Hall became ill early in 1915, but carried on his work until shortly before his death from chronic
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Catalogue of the Scientific and Technical Periodical Literature in the Libraries of Victoria
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in 1901. One of his major discoveries was the key to the unravelling of the complex
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Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
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on 21 December 1915. He was given the honorary degree of
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in 1879–80, then Hawthorn College and then went to the
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