- Edward Hull (geologist)
Edward Hull (1829-1917), a
geologist andstratigrapher , held the position of Director of theGeological Survey ofIreland . [cite web|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=div&did=HISTSCITECH.0012.0053.0011&isize=text|title=History of Science: Nature (February 3, 1870)|accessdate=2006-09-16]Edward Hull, M.A., F.R.S., was the Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Hull wrote: "The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland," published by Edward Stranforth, London, 1878.
"The Wallchart of World History." It is a fifteen page fold out chart/book showing the major nations and kingdoms as well as a chronological history of the Bible from 4000 B.C. to his present day in the nineteenth century. This book has been updated in the late twentieth century.
"The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources" 1861, in which Hull mentions the coal fields of Arley, and in which he suggests that the Romans may have mined for coal. http://www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk/content/News_Letters/news042.htm
"Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley: (One-Inch Geological Sheet 36)" by H. E. Wilson and Edward Hull and Manning, P. I. and James Andrew Robbie.
Edward Hull's autobiography was "Memoirs of a Strenuous Life" in 1909.
Edward Hull’s obituarist wrote of him, “He maintained the honour of a gentleman.” Geological Magazine, n.s. decade 6, IV (1917), 553-5, at page 555. As found on http://journals.cambridge.org/
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