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An American philologist; born in Troy, N. Y., March 21, 1825, died at Marlesford, England, Feb. 1, 1901. He graduated from Harvard in 1846. He lived long in India, and made a thorough study of its tongues, producing many translations in prose and verse. He had the D. C. L. from Oxford in 1860. Settling in London in 1862, he accepted the chair of Sanskrit and Indian jurisprudence in King's College. He was the first American to edit a Sanskrit text. Professor Hall discovered the supposed lost works: "Bharata's Natyasastra", "Harshaacharita", and a complete copy of the valuable "Brihaddevata". His contributions to our knowledge of Hindu and allied literatures are of inestimable value, and his text-books in this field are valuable and authoritative. He is one of the chief collaborators in Dr. Murray's great "Etymological Dictionary".