Edward Hull

Edward Hull (born May 21, 1829 in Antrim (city) , † October 18, 1917 ) was an Irish geologist.

Hull graduated from Trinity College , Dublin with a bachelor's degree and an engineering degree. He began to be interested in geology after contacts with Thomas Oldham and came to the British Geological Survey via Oldham in 1850, initially mapping under Joseph Beete Jukes in North Wales. He later mapped the coal fields of Lancashire, among other places . In 1867/68 he was deputy head of the Geological Survey of Scotland , was stationed in Glasgow and mapped the coal field on the Clyde . In 1883 he led an expedition to Jordan and Palestine for the Palestine Exploration Fund . He became director of the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1869, succeeding Jukes (doing a 1 inch = 8 mile geological map of Ireland) and retired in 1890. After that he lived in London. Hull was also a professor at the Royal College of Science in Dublin.

From 1901 to 1905 he was a member of the Coal Commission.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1867) and the Geological Society of London and President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1873). In 1890 he received the Murchison Medal . Hull Point , a headland of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands, has borne his name since 1958

Fonts (selection)

• The Coal-Fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure, and Resources. With Notices of the Coal Fields of Other Parts of the World. Second edition. Edward Stanford, London 1861 Archives
• The Triassic and Permian rocks of the Midland Counties of England . Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1869 Archives
• A Treatise on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries. MacMillan and Co., London 1872 Archives
• with John Roche Dakyns , Richard Hill Tiddeman, James Clifton Ward, William Gunn, Charles Eugene De Rance and Robert Etheridge : The Geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the Country around Clitheroe, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley, Haslingden, and Todmorden . Printed for HM Stationery Office, London 1875 Archives
• Palaeo-geological and geographical maps of the British Islands and the adjoining parts of the Continent, Dublin, around 1877
• The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland . London, Dublin 1878. Archives
• Geological history: being the natural history of the earth and of its pre-human inhabitants, Philadelphia: Lippincott 1887
• Mount Seir, Sinai, and Western Palestine. Being a narrative of a scientific expedition . The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Alexander P. Watt, London 1889 Archives
• The Survey of Western Palestine. Memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts . The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, London 1886 Archives
• Volcanoes: Past and Present. Walter Scott, London 1892, Archives
• Contributions to the Physical History of the British Isles. With a dissertation on the Origin of Western Europe, and of the Atlantic Ocean . Edward Stanford, London 1882. Archives
• Our Coal Resources at the Close of the Nineteenth Century . London, New York 1897 Archives
• Memoirs of a Strenuous Life, 1910 (autobiography)
• Monograph on the Sub-Oceanic Physiography of the North Atlantic Ocean. Edward Stanford, London 1912 Archives

Web links

• Biography at the Geological Survey