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instruction, but holding special excursion classes and delivering 

 occasional courses of lectures to extra-University students. 



Early in 1895 lie suffered from a severe attack of: influenza. From 

 this he never seems to have fully recovered, and in his enfeebled 

 state the ceaseless strain of work and responsibility soon began to 

 tell severely upon his general health. Early in August, 1896, he 

 had a paralytic stroke. This affected his right side and confined 

 him to bed ; but he wrote to his friends cheerfully, through an 

 amanuensis, that he was making good progress, and hoped before 

 many weeks were over to be at work again. But these hopes were, 

 alas, illusive, and a second attack on August 19 proved fatal. 



Professor Green was M.A. of both Cambridge and Oxford, and a 

 Fellow and Vice-President of the Geological Society of London. In 

 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, on the Council of 

 which he served in 1894 and 1895. In 1890 he filled the office of 

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

 Association at Leeds. He was Examiner in Geology to the Univer- 

 sities of Durham and Cambridge, Examiner for the Home and Indian 

 Civil Services, Assistant Examiner in Physiography to the Science 

 and Art Department, and, at the time of his death, one of the Exami- 

 ners in Geology for the University of London. 



Professor Green contributed occasional original papers to the 

 Geological Society and to various scientific magazines. Among 

 these may be mentioned his papers on the " Carboniferous Rocks of 

 the North of England" and on "Sub-aerial Denudation," "The 

 Geology of Donegal " and " The Geology of the Malvern Hills." 

 But his publications in this department of geology, when compared 

 with those of many of his geological contemporaries, are relatively 

 few and insignificant. On the practical side of the science, however, 

 there were not many who accomplished so much or whose reputation 

 was so widespread or so well deserved. His life-long acquaintance 

 with the details of geological structure, his clear head and his sound 

 judgment, rendered his advice on matters of engineering geology of 

 great value ; and, as a consequence, his services were being continu- 

 ally called into requisition in economic undertakings, especially 

 those in reference to coal mining and to water supply. He was 

 engaged in many of the most important operations of this nature 

 carried out in Britain during the last thirty years. He also visited 

 parts of South Africa in the pursuit of his practical work, and in 

 this way he was able to obtain a considerable insight into its little- 

 known geology. The paper in which he brought his African results 

 before the Geological Society is one of the most important contribu- 

 tions yet mad3 to the subject. 



Professor Green wrote papers upon the Yorkshire coal measures 

 in a volume of ' Essays upon Scientific Subjects,' issued by the 



