HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896), American Ori entalist, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, on December 12, 1837. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1859, was a tutor there in 1859-1863, graduated at the Columbia Law School in 1865, practised law in New York City until 1875 and in 1877 taught in the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut where he discovered a valuable Syriac manuscript of the Philoxenian ver sion of a large part of the New Testament which he published in part in facsimile in 1884. He worked with General di Cesnola in classifying the famous Cypriote collection in the Metropolitan Museum of New York City and was a curator of that museum from 1885 until his death in Mount Vernon, New York, on July 2, 1896.