IN MEMORIAM : PROFESSOR A. H. GREEN, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 233 
being commissioned to investigate the coal-bearing strata of those 
countries. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1886. 
It was naturally expected that a geologist of Green's distinction, 
possessing just that knowledge which was immediately applicable to 
local industries, would have proved eminently successful as a Pro- 
fessor of Geology in the West Riding. Not only had he the know- 
ledge and reputation which are essential, but he was a singularly 
clear and painstaking teacher. These expectations were not fulfilled. 
Hardly any students joined his geological classes during the fourteen 
years of his connection with the College, and he worked on under 
much discouragement till 1888, when he was appointed to succeed 
Sir Joseph Prestwich as Professor of Geology at Oxford. 
In Oxford Green found plenty of congenial work. He arranged 
the neglected geological collections, investigated the geology of the 
Malvern Hills, and taught regularly. He was a favourite lecturer to 
occasional classes, and did much work as a consulting geologist. In 
1890 he presided over the geological section of the British Associa- 
tion in Leeds. 
His life, which had of late years been bright and prosperous, 
came to a sudden close on August 19th, 1896. He left behind him 
a widow (his second wife) and five children. 
Green was throughout life a hard worker, very methodical and 
painstaking about everything which he undertook. He was an 
enthusiastic field-geologist, never in better spirits than when tramp- 
ing home after a long day in the open country, though he was often 
laden with a weight of stones that would have made another man's 
heart fail. In character he was simple, honest, and fearless ; very 
good-natured, especially towards children ; a little hot when he 
thought himself or others to be treated unjustly. He liked simplicity 
in all things, never dressed the shop-window, never spoke or wrote for 
effect. If any exception is to be made to this last remark, it can 
only be that he took a harmless pleasure in decorating his grave 
writings with an occasional poetical motto. Poetry of all kinds he 
loved, as he also loved music and pictures. He had many friends, 
who now think of him as a man who played his part cheerfully and 
well, always putting his work first and his pleasures second. 
L. C. MIALL. 
