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stand to his credit, not to speak of iniuiiiierable articles 

 and other contributions in magazines and newspapers. 



Among the more important works which he 

 published are " Parrots in Captivit}'," " Favourite 

 Foreign Birds," "Birds I Have Kept," two volumes 

 of "Notes on Cage Birds," "The Amateur's Aviary," 

 "Feathered Friends," and "British Birds for Cages." He 

 also wrote a little book about 20 years ago on " Diseases 

 of Cage Birds," which as I gather from a letter he 

 sent me three or four years ago, was somewhat a 

 source of regret to him in his later life, inasmuch as 

 he had long since sold the copyright of it. No one 

 realized more than its author that the efflux of time 

 and the phenomenal upheaval of medical views, due 

 to the extension of bacteriological knowledge, had 

 rendered its revision, or rather its complete rewriting, 

 a work of absolute necessity, and in the above 

 mentioned letter he stated his intention of approach- 

 ing the present proprietor on the subject. Apparenth^ 

 the project failed to fructify. I mention this matter 

 thus freely because I have often had to explain to 

 medical and veterinary men why this book still exists 

 in a form which, however it may have accorded with 

 the medical knowledge of a generation ago, is more 

 or less an anachronism to-day. 



Dr. Greene's literary style was particularly pleasing 

 and fully revealed his personality. Singularly devoid 

 of vanity, deeply endowed with the love of truth and 

 honest}^ painstaking to a degree in the acquisition 

 and recording of facts, gifted with the greatest 

 humaneness of feeling for all animals in his care, and 

 ever exercising the greatest kindness and consider- 

 ation towards his fellow men, he was essentially what 



