GREEN, JOSEPH HENRY: English surgeon and student of philosophy; b. in London Nov.l, 1791; d. at The Mount, Hadley, near Barnet (11 m.

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Qreenup n.n.w. of London), Dec. 13, 1863. He received his medical education in German universities, and in the College of Surgeons, London (M.D., 1815), where he became professor of anatomy in 1824. He was also surgeon to St. Thomas' Hospital (1820-52), professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy (1825 1852), professor of surgery at King's College (1830 1837), a member of the council of the College of Surgeons (1835-63), a member of the court of ex aminers (1$46-63), president of the college (1849 1850,1858-59), and president of the General Medical Council (1860-63). He was a personal friend and disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and became his literary executor. In 1836 he retired to the count 'ry and spent the rest of his life in philosophical and linguistic study with a view to publishing a monu mental exposition of Coleridge's system. He em bodied the results of his philosophical studies in Vital Dynamics (London, 1840); Mental Dynamics (1847); in the Introduction to his edition of Cole ridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1849); and particularly in the posthumous Spiritual Philosophy: Founded on the Teaching of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited, with a Memoir of Green, by John Simon (2 vols., 1865), the best expo sition of Coleridge's philosophy that has yet ap peared.

Bibliography: Consult, besides the Memoir prefixed to Spiritual Philosophy, ut sup., DNB, xxii. 49-51.

GREEN, SAMUEL GOSNELL: English Baptist; b. at Falmouth (66 m. w.s.w. of Plymouth), Corn wall, Dec, 20, 1822; d. in London Sept. 15, 1905. He was educated at Stepney (now Regent's Park) College (B.A., University of London, 1844). He was successively pastor at High Wycombe, Bucks. (1844-47), and Taunton (1847-51), then classical tutor (1851-63) and president (1863-76) of Horton College, Bradford, which was removed to Rawdon in 1859. In 1876 he was chosen book editor of the Religious Tract Society, London, of which he sub sequently became secretary, retiring from active life in 1899. He was a trustee of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, and a vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In theology he was a liberal Evangelical. His principal works are: Addresses to Children (London, 1849); The Working Classes of Great Britain (1850); Lectures to Children on the Bible (1856); Lectures to Children on Scripture Doctrine (1856); Büble Sketches for Young People (2 vols., 1865-70); Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek New Testament (1870); The Written Word; or, the Contents and Interpretation of Holy Scripture briefly considered (1871); Life and Letters of the Apostle Peter (1873); Kings of Israel and Judah (1876); Pen and Pencil Pictures (4 vols., 1876-83); What do 1 believe f (1880); Christian. Ministry to the Young (1883); Wycliffe Anecdotes (1884); The Christian Creed and the Creed of Chris tendom (1898); The Story of the Religious Tract Society (1899); Handbook of Old Testament Hebrew (1901); and Handbook of Church History (1904). He edited a new edition of P. Lorimer's translation of G. V. Lechler's Wiclif (London, 1884); an enlarged edition of the Annotated Paragraph Bible (1894); and a thoroughly revised edition of J. Angus' $0le Handbook (1904); besides being chairman of the editorial committee of a New Baptist Church Hymnal.