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without. Separation,’ addressed to the president of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, to prove that the distinction between physician and surgeon 
did not really exist, and that such division was highly injurious where it 
did. About this time he was unfortunate in entering into a wordy 
warfare with the Lancet , about the publication of his lectures, and in 
which he was severely handled and totally discomfited. Lecturers now 
see the advantages of their lectures being correctly reported in the 
medical papers, from which the public and themselves so largely profit. 
In 1831 he wrote a memorable letter to the Times, suggesting a plan of 
medical reform, to the effect that the medical student should have a 
sound, classical, and mathematical education, and proposing a higher and 
lower grade or distinction ; and as showing the wisdom of these sugges¬ 
tions it may be mentioned that the Council of the Royal College of 
Surgeons has for some time past adopted the whole of them. In 1835, 
on the death of Mr. Lynn, surgeon to the Westminster Hospital and a 
member of the Council of the College, Mr. Green was unanimonsly 
elected to the chair in the Council of that College of which he had 
become such a distinguished member. In 1840 he was requested by his 
colleagues to deliver the annual oration in memory of the immortal 
Hunter; and so much satisfaction did this afford them that at their 
earnest request he published it under the title of ‘Vital Dynamics and 
again in 1847 he became Hunterian orator, and published the lectures 
under the name of ‘ Mental Dynamics.’ Neither were considered popular 
discourses; they were perhaps in advance of the times, and moreover 
were full of the metaphysical notions entertained by the celebrated 
Coleridge, his intimate friend and congenial spirit. In 1846, on the 
resignation of Sir Benjamin Brodie, he was elected a member of the 
Court of Examiners, an appointment he held up to the time of his 
lamented decease, and in 1849 obtained, at the hands of his colleagues, 
the highest appointment they had it in their power to confer—viz., the 
president’s gown—an honour again most worthily conferred on him in 
1858. From Her Majesty’s Government he received the appointment of 
President of the Council of Medical Education and Registration of the 
United Kingdom.” 
Mr. Green’s long connection also with the veterinary profession, and 
the eminent services he rendered it from an early period down to its 
becoming an incorporated body, call for especial notice in this obituary. 
In May 1819 he was unanimously chosen a member of the Board of 
Examiners of the Royal Veterinary College, to supply the vacancy oc¬ 
curred by the death of the younger Cline. A ssociating himself in the per¬ 
formance of these duties with the late Mr. Abernethy, Dr. Babington, 
Dr. Bailie, Sir A. Cooper, Dr. Cooke, Henry Cline, Sir E. Hume, Dr. 
Pearson, J. Wilson, and Professors Coleman and Sewell, he lived to 
see all these carried to the tomb of their fathers, and to have for his 
colleagues an entire new list of worthies. 
On the attainment of the charter of incorporation in March 1844, Mr. 
Green, in common with the other members of the College Board, sent in 
their resignations, it being considered that their services were now no 
longer required. 
This step is thus .recorded in the College archives :— 
“ Resolved .—That whereas it appears by the charter lately granted to 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the present Board of Exa¬ 
miners is virtually dissolved, we, the medical members of the said 
Board, respectfully tender our resignations with every wish for the sue- 
