At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to his uncle, Mr. Cline, and en- 

 tered on the study of medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, of which Mr. 

 Cline was surgeon. In 1813 he married Miss Anne Eliza Hammond. 

 This lady, who survives him, was the daughter of Mr. Hammond, surgeon 

 at Southgate, and sister of an early friend and fellow student. 



In 1815 Mr. Green became a member of the College of Surgeons, and 

 was soon afterwards appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Thomas's 

 Hospital. "While in this office he published a ' Dissector's Manual,' which 

 bore advantageous comparison with the books of the same kind then in use. 

 In the meantime Mr. Cline had retired from St. Thomas's, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Mr. Henry Cline, on whose early death, in 1820, Mr. 

 Green was appointed Surgeon to that Hospital, and Lecturer on Surgery in 

 the Medical School, in conjunction with Sir Astley Cooper, who withdrew 

 from the joint office in 1825. 



The advantageous position in which Mr. Green was now placed, and his 

 own merit, speedily gained for him the confidence of his profession and the 

 public. In 1824 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy to the Royal 

 College of Surgeons ; in 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 (in later years he served on the Council). Also in 1825 he received the 

 appointment of Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy, and in the 

 latter part of that year delivered the first of a long succession of annual 

 courses on Anatomy in its relation to the Fine Arts. Ere now, too, he had 

 acquired a considerable and increasing share in the private practice of his 

 profession. 



Respecting the Lectures at the College of Surgeons, which formed one 

 comprehensive course distributed over four years, Professor Owen, who 

 heard them delivered, thus writes to Mr. Simon* : "For the first time in 

 England the comparative anatomy of the whole animal kingdom was de- 

 scribed, and illustrated by such a series of enlarged and coloured diagram 

 as had never before been seen. The vast array of facts was linked by refer- 

 ence to the underlying Unity, as it had been advocated by Oken and Carus. 

 The Comparative Anatomy of the latter was the text-book of the Course. 



Green illustrated, in his grand course, Carus rather than Hunter ; 



the dawning philosophy of Anatomy in Germany, rather than the teleology 

 which Abernethy and Carlisle had previously given as Hunterian, not 

 knowing their master." 



Of Mr. Green's lectures at the Royal Academy (where he retained his 

 professorship till 1852), Mr. Simon, who attended several of the courses, 

 thus expresses himself: " His teaching at the Royal Academy, like all his 

 teaching, was characterized by a very deep-going and comprehensive treat- 

 ment of his subject. He recognized, of course, that the details of anatomy 



* The facts, and in some places the language, of this notice have been taken from a 

 biographical memoir prefixed to Mr. Green's posthumous work (to be afterwards referred 

 to) by its editor, John Simon, Esq., F.R.S., Mr. Green's friend and pupil. The passages 

 in inverted commas are taken from that source. 



