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Obituary Notices of Felloivs deceased. 



but not to the stage of exhaustion. For some years he spent part of 

 the Long Vacation yachting and fishing with his brother. His hobby was 

 gardening. He converted a large part of his 15 acres of sloping hillside 

 at Shelford into a charming terraced garden, the early summer display of 

 which was the occasion of an annual reception to Cambridge residents. He 

 was always glad to receive physiologists visiting Cambridge, and his bluff, 

 hearty greeting left no doubt of their welcome. In the evening he liked a 

 game of whist or bridge, and after college feasts he was amongst the first to 

 settle down to a rubber. 



In the year preceding his death he was a little troubled about his health, 

 but his customary course of life was hardly affected. He was writing a small 

 volume on the ' Involuntary Nervous System/ and on September 3 revised 

 the last sheets. Early on the following morning he had cerebral haemor- 

 rhage, and died on September 7 without recovering consciousness. 



J. K L. 



JOSEPH KEYNOLDS GEE EE", 1848-1914. 



Joseph Eeynolds Green was born at Stowmarket, Suffolk, in 1848. He 

 was destined for a commercial career, and actually entered upon it for some 

 years. But his real bent and capacity were scientific, and all his spare time 

 was given to study, with the result that he took the B.Sc. degree of the 

 University of London in 1880. This seems to have decided him to devote 

 himself entirely to scientific work, and with this object in view he entered 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, as a sizar, in October, 1881. He pursued his 

 studies with such zeal and success that he was elected to a scholarship at 

 Trinity in 1882, and gained a First Class in Part I of the Natural Sciences 

 Tripos in 1883, as also a First Class in Part II the following year, his subjects 

 being Botany and Animal Physiology. His work in the latter subject was 

 carried on under the late Sir Michael Foster, whilst I was responsible for his 

 botanical work. He impressed us both, as a student, not only by his 

 enthusiasm but also and more especially by the singular lucidity of his mind. 



Having thus satisfactorily completed his undergraduate career, he at once 

 applied himself to research, both botanical and physiological. His first 

 published contribution to science was a paper on the glands of the Hyperi- 

 caceae, which appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society, 1884. At the 

 same time he was engaged in experiments upon the clotting of blood, which 

 led him to make the important discovery that the process is dependent upon 

 the presence of a calcium salt, more especially the sulphate, which, he concluded 



