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== Timeline ==
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| 1846 || Resigned 5th January.
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| 1861 || Born December 28th, son of George Hill of Tregassick, Cornwall, kinsman of J.H.C. Bastian the advocate of abiogenesis. 6 years service in the Navy. Retired to study geology at University College London and Royal School of Mines.
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| 1884 || Entered Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist.
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| || First fieldwork in Argyllshire.
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| || Contributed to Memoirs: “Seaboard of Argyll” (1909), “Mid-Argyll” (1905), “Knapdale” (1911), “Cowal” (1897), “Oban” (1908).
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| || Paper in Quarterly Journal “Progressive Metamorphism in region of Loch Awe”.
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| 1897 || Transferred to Cornwall. Lived at Falmouth and worked on the Killas of North Meneage and parts of west of Falmouth. Recognised 4 lithological units of the Killas which he termed Portcatho, Mylor, Veryan and Falmouth divisions. Given charge of official enq
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| 1901 || Promoted to Geologist. Transferred to the Midlands and surveyed small area around Ollerton and Lichfield. Contributed to “Lichfield” Memoir (1919), “Ollerton” (1911) and “Derbyshire Coalfield” (1913).
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| 1911 || Resigned from Survey. Appointed Geological Advisor to Local Government Board (1911 – 22), chief work on underground water supply.
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| 1913 || Awarded Bolitho Gold Medal from Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.
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| 1927 || Died December 18th.
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== Biographies and obituaries ==
Bather, F.A. Obituary - James Bastion Hill. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 84 p.lvii. 1928

Obituary - James Bastian Hill. Born in 1861, died 18th December 1927. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 39 p.202-203. 1928

== Publications ==
Hill, J.B.. 1906. [A history of the county of Cornwall]. Pt. 1, geology. - London: Constable. - (Victoria history of the counties of England)

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