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Ed Landon

Ed Landon

New York State Paleontologist Emeritus at the New York State Museum

Aug 6, 2026

Mark Dunlea
Mark DunleaCORRESPONDENT
0:30
So, I guess, Ed, why is this building important, and who exactly was James Hall?
0:36
Okay, as you noted, I am New York State paleontologist emeritus, paleontologist studies ancient life, and truly North America's most famous paleontologist lived in Albany.
0:52
He started the state museum here.
0:55
He started its geological survey.
0:58
He worked in the second half of the 1800s, he had kind of a global perspective.
1:06
First person to work on rocks and fossils in California, in Utah, in Maritime Canada.
1:16
He first developed the idea of a mobile earth where mountains rose through an immense period of geologic time and then were eroded.

6 MINS LATER

Mark Dunlea
Mark DunleaCORRESPONDENT
7:28
Is there anything more you'd like to share about, you know, James Hall's own legacy? You've done some of that, but other things that people might be interested in? Well, as I said, as I said, you

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