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Authorised form of nameGreen; Alexander Henry (1832 - 1896)
Dates1832 - 1896
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMaidstone, Kent, England
Date of birth10 October 1832
Date of death19 August 1896
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Caius College, Cambridge. BA (1855), MA
Career:
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Staff, Geological Survey of England and Wales (1861-1874); Professor of Geology, Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds (1870-1888); wrote 'A Manual of Physical Geology' (1876); Professor of Geology, University of Oxford (1888); died of a paralytic stroke
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1886
RelationshipsSon of Rev Thomas Sheldon Green, headmaster of the grammar school of Ashby-de-la-Zouche
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1897-1898 vol 62 pp v-ix signed by C L
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71086929
CodeNA5597
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/Maull/001760Green, Alexander Henrynd
NLB/13/401Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[10] August 1896
NLB/8/927Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alexander Henry Green, Fellow of the Royal Society23 January 1894
EC/1886/08Green, Alexander Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001761Green, Arthur Georgend
RR/10/339Referee's report by Alexander Henry Green, on a paper 'On the British earthquakes of 1889' by Charles Davison[1890]
RR/12/81Referee's report by Alexander Henry Green, on a paper 'On the Leicester earthquake of August 4, 1893' by Charles Davison15 May 1894
MC/16/211Letter from [Alexander Henry] Green, 137 Woodstock Road, Oxford, to [Michael] Foster9 May 1895
MC/16/89Letter from [Alexander Henry] Green,137 Woodstock Road, Oxford, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society30 January 1894
MC/16/43Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, Horace T Brown, James Geikie, A H Green, A C L G Gunther, E Ray Lankester, E B Poulton, G J Romanes, to the Royal Society[May 1893]
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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