4 The A>ncricati Geologist. January, iqck) 
was then puzzling his head over theories which not ten years 
later took an early shape in an article in the Edinburgh New 
Philosophical Journal, on the outline of the southern extremi- 
ties of the continents of the globe. 
On his arrival at Honolulu he had to attend firstly to ma- 
terial wants. He happened to be most kindly received by a 
merchant, Mr. Robert Cheshire Janion, and in a short time 
became a partner in the firm of Janion, Green & Co., in Hono- 
lulu and Janion, Green & Rhodes in British Columbia. 
He married a daughter of Dr. McKibbin, a resident Eng- 
lish physician in Honolulu, and perhaps, saving some tem- 
porary visit to the American coast, never again quitted those 
seductive Hawaiian islands. He died there on Dec. 7, 1890. 
During the intervals of leisure in his several occupations 
as merchant, foimder of the now prosperous iron works, sugar 
planter, deputy British commissioner, senator, and at times 
prime minister of the kingdom of Hawaii, his mind, we may 
be certain, w'as fixed upon the w'orking out of the geological 
theory of the conformation of the earth's crust. 
Independently of his business occupations, he had to con- 
tend with the difficulty of pursuing his scientific studies thou- 
sands of miles distant from Europe and out of the imme- 
diate reach of books, the papers of learned societies, and, 
above all, of daily converse with men of kindred ideas in his 
own countr}'. 
Part I of Air. Green's "Vestiges of the Molten Globe" w^as 
published by Stanford in London in 1875. It appeared to at- 
tract little attention from the British scientific world. The few 
criticisms that appeared in the scientific and literary journals, 
such as "Nature" and the "Atheneum," were unfavorable and 
almost contemptuous. Writing from the Hawaiian islands to 
his brother in London in March, 1882, Green says: 
■'Stanford has written to me that he wants to get the" 
remaining copies of the 'Vestiges of the Molten Globe' out" 
of his. way. They will not realize much as waste paper" 
as there is not much paper about them. Mons. Dau-" 
bree keeps sending me messages that they w^ould like" 
to receive more of my lucubrations on volcanic sub-'' 
jects. A letter I recently sent to Paris was published" 
in the proceedings of the Paris Geographical Society" 
