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  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
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  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  and 
  an 
  active 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Council. 
  He 
  was 
  

   elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  in 
  1862, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  he 
  was 
  

   a 
  Yice-President. 
  

  

  Alexander 
  Henry 
  Green 
  was 
  the 
  son 
  of 
  the 
  Eev. 
  Thomas 
  

   Sheldon 
  Green, 
  who 
  was 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  Master 
  of 
  the 
  Ashby 
  

   Grammar 
  School 
  and 
  a 
  classical 
  scholar 
  of 
  some 
  repute. 
  He 
  

   was 
  born 
  at 
  Maidstone, 
  October 
  10th, 
  1832, 
  and 
  educated 
  at 
  his 
  

   father's 
  school, 
  Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 
  and 
  at 
  Gonville 
  and 
  Caius 
  

   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 
  of 
  his 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  Survey, 
  he 
  examined 
  considerable 
  

   areas 
  of 
  the 
  Jurassic 
  and 
  Cretaceous 
  rocks 
  in 
  the 
  Midland 
  counties, 
  

   and 
  of 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  rocks 
  in 
  Derbyshire, 
  Yorkshire, 
  and 
  other 
  

   northern 
  counties. 
  Many 
  Survey 
  memoirs 
  were 
  written 
  wholly 
  or 
  

   in 
  part 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Green, 
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  which 
  are 
  the 
  ' 
  Geology 
  of 
  Banbury 
  ' 
  

   (1864), 
  and 
  the 
  geological 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  around 
  Stock- 
  

   port 
  (1866), 
  Tadcaster 
  (1870), 
  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 
  1883. 
  

  

  For 
  several 
  years 
  Prof. 
  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 
  Boyal 
  Society, 
  and 
  served 
  on 
  its 
  

   Council 
  in 
  1894-95. 
  In 
  188S 
  he 
  was 
  appointed 
  Professor 
  of 
  

   Geology 
  at 
  Oxford, 
  as 
  successor 
  to 
  the 
  late 
  Sir 
  Joseph 
  Prestwich. 
  

   In 
  1890 
  he 
  filled 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  President 
  of 
  Section 
  C 
  (Geology) 
  

   at 
  the 
  British 
  Association, 
  Leeds, 
  and 
  delivered 
  the 
  customary 
  

   address. 
  Prof. 
  Green 
  also 
  filled 
  the 
  offices 
  of 
  Examiner 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  