Professor A. H. Green, F.R.S

Abstract

GEOLOGICAL science has sustained a very serious loss in the death of Alexander Henry Green, Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. He was born at Maidstone on October 10, 1832, and after receiving his early education at the grammar school at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, he entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he gained the place of sixth wrangler in 1855, and was elected a fellow of his college. Although mathematics had gained for him his high position in the University examination, yet geology had taken some hold of him. His interest in the subject had been awakened in Leicestershire, and the eloquent teachings of Sedgwick had further attracted him to the science.