Thomas Sergeant Hall

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Thomas Sergeant Hall (23 December 1858 – 21 December 1915) was an Australian geologist and biologist, recipient of The Murchison Fund in 1901.^[1]

Early life

Hall was born in

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 Castlemaine 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.

In 1899 Hall published a Catalogue of the Scientific and Technical Periodical Literature in the Libraries of Victoria. A second and enlarged edition, in which he was assisted by Mr E. R. Pitt of the public library,

Hall became ill early in 1915, but carried on his work until shortly before his death from chronic nephritis on 21 December 1915. He was given the honorary degree of D.Sc. 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.

References

• Serle, Percival (1949). "Hall, Thomas Sergeant". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 20 January 2009.
• Thomas A. Darragh, 'Hall, Thomas Sergeant (1858 - 1915)',
  MUP
  , 1983, pp 166–167. Retrieved 20 January 2009