Hall, Charles

F., Arctic explorer and author, was born in Cincinnati in 1825, and was for some years a prominent journalist in that city. Becoming deeply interested in Dr. Kane's two expeditions to the Arctic regions, as well as in the various searches for Sir John Franklin, and having devoted much of his time and study to the subject of Polar exploration, he sailed (1860) on an expedition in search of the lost navigator, defraying a considerable portion of the expense from his own means. He spent two years and three months in the Arctic regions at this time, learned more particulars in regard to Sir John's death than any previous explorer, and in 1864 returned to the North and spent five years there, mastering thoroughly the Esquimaux language, and adopting to a considerable extent their mode of life. During this second expedition he discovered and brought home many relics of the Franklin expedition, and fully ascertained the time and places when and where they had perished. After his return he devoted himself to scientific study, and in July, 1871, set sail a third time for the Polar regions on board the Polar is, a government steamer fitted up expre ly for him, with a picked crew, scientific observers, and all nece ary appliances, the Congre of the United States having appropriated $100,000 for the exploration. He expected to be gone three or four years, and was sanguine of being able to reach the North Pole, but died in the Arctic regions, Nov. 8, 1871. Capt. H. , after his return from his first voyage, published a narrative entitled Explorations and Adventures in the Arctic Regions. Hall, ISAAC HOLLISTER, Orientalist; born in Norwalk, Conn., Dec., 12, 1837; graduate of Hamilton College (1859); subsequently tutor there; admitted to the bar; practiced law in New York City (1864-75); held a profe orship in the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut (1875-77); later was a ociate editor of The Sunday School Times, Philadelphia. He was the first to read an entire inscription in the Cypriote language, and discovered in Beirut a Syriac manuscript of the Gospels, Acts, and most of the Epistles. The manuscript was dated between 700 and 900 A.D., and its Gospels constituted the long-lost Phi lox on i an version; also discovered the Antilegomena Epistles in the "Williams Manuscript." Besides numerous articles on Oriental inscriptions and other subjects, he wrote a Critical Bibliography of the Greek New Testament as Published in America . Died July 2, 1896.