Edward Hull
1829–1917
Irish geologist. Entered the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1850. Worked in north Wales with Joseph Beete Jukes, and in various English counties. District surveyor, Geological Survey of Scotland, 1867–8; director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, 1869–90. Professor of geology at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1869–90; president of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, 1873–5. Led an expedition to the Wadi Araba on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1883–4. FRS 1867.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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