(even of mere artistic surface-anatomy) could not be adequately spoken of, 

 much less conveyed, in the six formal lectures which he had annually to 

 deliver. ...... Not indeed that he omitted to survey, or surveyed other- 

 wise than admirably, the composition and mechanism of the human body ; 

 and perhaps no mere anatomist ever taught more effectively than he what 

 are the bodily materials and arrangement which represent the aptitude for 

 strength, equipoise, and grace, or what respective shares are contributed 

 by bone, muscle, and tegument to the various visible phenomena of form 

 and gesture, attitude and action. But to this he did not confine himself. 

 Specially in the one or two introductory or closing lectures of each course, 

 but at times also by digression in other lectures, he set before his hearers 

 that which to them, as artists, was* matter of at least equal concern the 

 science of interpreting human expression and appreciating human beauty. 

 His discourses on these subjects were very deeply considered. Necessarily 

 they were of wide philosophical range. And they were enriched with num- 

 berless illustrative references to the history of Art, and to the master-works 

 of ancient and modern sculpture and painting." 



On the establishment of King's College in 1830, Mr. Green was nomi- 

 nated Professor of Surgery, and continued to hold the Professorship till 

 1836, when he resigned it (on retiring to' live in the country), and was 

 elected a Member of the Governing Council of the institution. Of his 

 surgical lectures it is stated on the best authority that the technical instruc- 

 tion imparted, perfect as it was, was by no means their sole excellence ; 

 they had also a moral aim, and were admirably fitted to exert a favourable 

 influence on the habits of thought and future professional character of his 

 young hearers. 



In 1 835 Mr. Green was elected on the Council of the College of Surgeons, 

 and in 1846 appointed to the Court of Examiners. In 1840 and 1847 he 

 delivered the Hunterian Oration ; in 1849-50 and again in 1858-59 he was 

 President ; in 1853 he exchanged his post of Surgeon to St. Thomas's for 

 the honorary appointment (then first made) of Consulting Surgeon to that 

 institution; and on the creation, by the Medical Act of 1858, of the 

 General Council of Medical Education and Registration, he was chosen by 

 the College of Surgeons to be its representative in the new body. Two 

 years later, when the post of President of the Medical Council became 

 vacant by the retirement of Sir Benjamin Brodie, the Council unanimously 

 elected Mr. Green to the office ; and he continued in it, with the warmest 

 regard and confidence of its members, for the remaining three years of 

 his life. 



Mr. Green thus attained to the foremost rank in his profession, and came 

 to occupy with universal assent its highest public offices ; but the contem- 

 plation of his professional and public career would convey a wholly inade- 

 quate notion of his intrinsic mental tendencies and pursuits, and the scope 

 of his intellectual activity. From his early years he had a bent towards the 

 study of abstract philosophy in its largest and highest sense ; and to gratify 



