He contributed, moreover, a large number of articles on natural history subjects to various Jamaica publications too numerous to mention. Some of these were: _The Jamaica Almanacs_; _Transactions of the Jamaica Society of Arts_; _Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts of Jamaica_; _The Jamaica Physical Journal_; _Jamaica Monthly Magazine_; _Jamaica Quarterly Magazine_. In England he contributed to the _Proceedings of the Zoological Society_; and in America to the _Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science_, Philadelphia, and the _Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History_, New York.
In stature he was tall and commanding, though perhaps the comparison of him to Antinous made by the writer of an obituary notice was a little exaggerated. All who knew bore testimony to his generosity, philanthropy, modesty, even temper, and unfailing self-forgetfulness, his kindness of heart, his piety, and his catholicism in matters of religion. A portrait of him executed in oils, it is said, by James Wyeth, an American artist who spent a short season in the island, is in the Jamaica History Gallery at the Institute of Jamaica, which also possesses a pencil sketch of him done by himself.
For two or three years before his death Hill suffered from failing eyesight. He died, unmarried, at Spanish Town, on September 28, 1872, at the advanced age of seventy-eight. His remains were followed to the grave by an immense concourse of all classes.
FRANK CUNDALL, _Secretary, The Institute of Jamaica_
[1] Taken in great measure from the biographical notice by the writer in the _Journal of the Institute of Jamaica_, July, 1896.
[2] For a general sketch of this period see W. J. Gardner's _a History of Jamaica_, pp. 211-317.
[3] This movement had for years been promoted by the heroic few. It was then getting a hearing in Parliament. They first advocated the abolition of the slave trade and then directed attention to slavery.
[4] These contributions closely connected Hill with the men whose new thought revolutionized science a few decades later.
[5] San Domingo was then independent and the success of the free Negroes there would have a direct bearing on the anti-slavery movement, as indifferent white men sometimes contended that the free Negro was a failure.