Excerpt from James Hall of Albany: Geologist and Palaeontologist, 1811-1898 Hingham; its location and settlement - Arrival of James Hall, Sr from England A woolen-weaver General Lincoln's mill - The Old Ship Church - Death of the parents - The haunts of my childhood - Boy inter est in Nature - Poverty at home - Hingham schools and schoolmasters Increase N. Smith - Boyhood friendships and letters - Charles S. Kendall - Burn ing of Doctor Beecher's church - The octogenarians Hall's lack of interest in the rocks Boston influences - Martin Gay -the Linnaean Society - The Boston Society of Natural History - Amos Binney, George B. Emerson, Augustus A. Gould, D. Humphreys Storer -natural History of Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.