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OBITUARY. 



ALEXANDER HENRY GREEN. 



Born 1832. Died August ig, 1896. 



''PHE late Professor of Geology at Oxford was born in 1832, and 

 I was educated at Ashby de la Zouche Grammar School. He 

 entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, became Sixth 

 Wrangler in 1855, and was elected a Fellow of his college the same 

 year. He was appointed to the Geological Survey of England and 

 Wales in 1861, and in 1875 was elected Professor of Geology at 

 Yorkshire College. On the retirement of Professor Sir Joseph Prestwich 

 from Oxford in 1888, Professor Green was chosen as his successor. 

 He was an M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, having been incorporated 

 from Cambridge. His chief work while on the Geological Survey was 

 done in the districts of Banbury, Woodstock, Bicester, Buckingham, 

 Leeds, Tadcaster, and the Yorkshire Coalfield, Stockport, Maccles- 

 field, Congleton, and Leek, but his best known and most enduring 

 work is his "Geology for Students: Part I., Physical Geology." 

 When Professor Green came to Oxford he found that geology had 

 only just been made a subject of examination in the schools, and that 

 no adequate provision for its teaching existed. He at once set to 

 work to start a proper geological laboratory, and among the improve- 

 ments which he initiated was that of acquiring the services of each 

 successive Burdett-Coutts scholar during the first year of his scholar- 

 ship, a move which was a mutual benefit to the museum and to the 

 scholar. Either the atmosphere of Oxford or the weight of a large 

 but ill-arranged collection seemed to act as a check on his original 

 investigations, and since his appointment to the professorship at that 

 University science has owed but little to his researches, though as 

 a mining expert he was much sought after. He succumbed to the 

 effects of paralysis, and was buried at Wolvercote. 



GEORGIANA ELIZABETH ORMEROD. 

 Born July 23, 1823. Died August 19, 1896. 



'"PHE elder sister and constant companion of Miss Eleanor A. 

 i- Ormerod passed away at St. Albans, aged 73 years. Miss 

 Ormerod was born in London, and early showed a bent towards botany 

 and conchology ; her collection of shells, containing upwards of 3,000 

 species, was given by her to the Huddersfield Museum. For many 

 years she assisted her sister Eleanor in her work on economic entomo- 

 logy, her linguistic gifts being of invaluable assistance, while her skill 

 with the pencil and brush have been practically applied in drawing a 



