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time of the birth of his son Henry was head master of the Grammar 

 School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.* 



Green received his early education in his father's grammar school 

 at Ashby; and the man who'criginally inspired him with his life- long 

 regard for geology was the Rev. W. H. Coleman, one of the masters 

 in the Ashby School. Coleman and his pnpil were fortunate not 

 only in living in a district of exceptional geological interest, bub 

 also in the circumstance that a few years previously (1834) Mr. 

 Mammat, a local geologist, had made the structure of the neigh- 

 bourhood classic in his well-known work ' Geological Facts.' 

 Coleman, who seems to have been not only a scientific enthusiast 

 but a man of singularly loveable character, died young. His memory 

 was fondly cherished by his pupil, who always spoke of him in 

 after years with great personal affection, and dedicated to his 

 memory his own work on ' Physical Geology.' 



In the course of a few years Green made himpelf so familiar 

 with the structure of the Ashby country that when Professor (after- 

 wards Sir Andrew) Ramsay paid a visit for the purpose of examin- 

 ing the district on behalf of the National Geological Survey, he 

 was at once referred to Green as the acknowledged local authority on 

 the subject. Ramsay soon convinced himself of the young man's 

 remarkable scientific abilities ; and, always on the look out for 

 exceptional geological talent, suggested that if he desired to devote 

 his life to geological work he should become a candidate for a post * 

 upon the National Survey. 



From Ashby School, Green proceeded to Caius College, Cambridge. 

 In 1855 he was placed sixth among the Wranglers in the Mathema- 

 tical Tripos, and was elected a Fellow of his College in the same 

 year. During his tenure of his Fellowship he took pupils in mathe- 

 matics at his own College, and afterwards held masterships in 

 mathematics at two private schools, 



But although mathematics had gained for him his high position 

 in the University, and the teaching of mathematics had a special 

 charm for him*, yet the science of geology had obtained too strong 

 a hold upon his mind and his sympathies to be relinquished. The 

 love of the science w"hich had been awakened in his early life by 

 Coleman, and his own keen interest and pleasure in the pursuit of 

 personal geological investigation had both become intensified and 

 fixed at Cambridge by the eloquent teachings of Sedgwick ; and in 

 1861 Green applied for, and was appointed to, a post on the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of England and Wales. His connexion with the 



* I have to thank Professor T. a. Bonney, F.E.S., Mr. H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., 

 Mr. W. W. Watts, M.A., and others, for information and kindly assistance in the 

 preparation of this memoir. 



