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GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREEN, See also:ALEXANDER See also:HENRY (1832—1896) , See also:English geologist, son of the Rev. See also:Thomas See also:Sheldon Green, See also:master of the See also:Ashby See also:Grammar School, was See also:born at See also:Maidstone on the loth of See also:October 1832. He was educated partly at his See also:father's school, Ashby-de-la-See also:Zouch, and afterwards at Gonville and See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated as See also:sixth wrangler in 18J5 and was elected a See also:fellow of his college. In 1861 he joined the See also:Geological Survey of See also:Great See also:Britain,- and surveyed large areas of the midland counties, See also:Derbyshire and See also:Yorkshire. He wrote (wholly or in See also:part) See also:memoirs on the See also:Geology of See also:Banbury (1864), of See also:Stockport (1866), of See also:North Derbyshire (1869, 2nd ed. 1887), and of the Yorkshire See also:Coal-See also:field (1878). In 1874 he retired from the Geological Survey, having been appointed See also:professor of geology in the Yorkshire College at See also:Leeds; in 1885 he became also professor of See also:mathematics, while for many years he held the lectureship on geology at the school of military See also:engineering at See also:Chatham. He was elected F.R.S. in 1886, and two years later was chosen professor of geology in the university of See also:Oxford. His See also:manual of See also:Physical Geology (1876, 3rd ed. 1882) is an excellent See also:book. He died at See also:Boar's See also:Hill, Oxford, on the 19th of See also:August 1896. A portrait of him, with brief memoir, was published in Proc.

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Polytechnic See also:Soc. xiii. 232.

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