480 Obituary— Professor A. H. Green. 



OBITUAEY. 



ALEXANDER HENRY GREEN, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Bokx October 10, 1S32. Dieb August 19, 1896. 



With deep regret we have to record the death of our friend and 

 brother geologist Professor Alexander Henry Green, M.A., F.E.S. 



He was the son of the Eev. Thomas Sheldon Green, who was for 

 many years Master of the Ashhy Grammar School and a classical 

 scholar of some repute. A. H. Green was born at Maidstone, 

 October 10, 1832, and educated at his father's school, Ashby- de- 

 la -Zouche, and at Gonville and Cains College, Cambridge. He 

 was Sixth Wrangler in 1855, and was elected Fellow of his 

 College the same year. In 1861 he was appointed an Assistant 

 on the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and in 1867 he 

 attained the rank of Geologist. During the time he was connected 

 with the Survey, he examined considerable areas of the Jurassic 

 and Cretaceous rocks in the Midland counties, and of the Carbon- 

 iferous rocks in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and other northern counties. 

 Many Survey memoirs were written wholly or in part by Mr. Green, 

 among which are the "Geology of Banbury" (1864), and the 

 geological descriptions of the country around Stockport (1866), 

 Tadoaster (1879), Dewsbury (1871), Barnsley (1878), and Wakefield 

 (1879). The memoir on the geology of North Derbyshire, of which 

 the first edition was published in 1869 and the second in 1887, was 

 written chiefly by Mr. Green. His most important Survey work 

 is the "Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield" (1878). 



Mr. Green retired from the Geological Survey in 1874 on his 

 appointment to the Professorship of Geology in the Yorkshire 

 College at Leeds, to which was added, in 1885, the Professorship 

 of Mathematics in the same College. But he completed some 

 official Survey work after the time of his appointment at Leeds. 



In 1876 he published a Manual of Physical Geology, a work which 

 has taken a leading place as a textbook for students and teachers 

 in this branch of the science ; a third edition was issued in 188o. 



For several years Professor Green held the Lectureship on 

 Geology at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. In 

 the year 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Koyal Society ; and in 

 1888 he was appointed Professor of Geology at Oxford, as successor 

 to the late Sir Joseph Prestwich. In lb90 Professor Green filled 

 the office of President of Section C (Geology) at the British 

 Association, Leeds, and delivered the customary address. He served 

 on the Council of the Koyal Society 1894-5, and also for some years 

 on that of the Geological Society of London, to which he had been 

 elected in 1862. Professor Green filled the offices of Examiner to 

 the University of London and Assistant Examiner to the Science 

 and Art Department; he was also Examiner in Geology to the 

 University of Durham, and latterly for the Home and Indian Civil 

 Service. 



His death took place, from paralysis, on Wednesday, August 19, 

 1896, at his residence Boar's Hill, near Oxford. 



