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PROF. EDWARD HULL, who died in London on October 18, was born at Antrim, where his father was rector, on May 21, 1829, and had thus reached his eighty-ninth year. Like many of those whose work has lain in the open air, he retained considerable vigour, and he revisited at the age of eighty some of the scenes of his early observations. His father proposed for him a career in the Church of Ireland, and his early literary and biblical studies no doubt left an im pression on his life. Attracted, however, by experimental science, Hull entered Dublin Uni versity as a student of engineering:, and the lectures of Thomas Oldham determined his career. Oldham recommended him to De la Beche, and he was appointed to the English Geological Sur vey as assistant to J. Beete Jukes.
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Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S. Nature 100, 169–170 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100169b0
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