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The author estimates the heat kernel \(H(x,y,t)\) and Green's function \(G(x,y)\) on two kinds of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below: compact manifolds without boundary and non-compact complete manifolds with finite volume and \(\lambda_2>0\), where \(\lambda_2\) is the infimum of the second Dirichlet eigenvalues among bounded domains on the manifold. Although some earlier results of, for example, Davies-Pang and Li-Yau estimate the heat kernel on these manifolds, they cannot provide the estimate of Green's function. The heat kernel \(H(x,y,t)\) is the fundamental solution of the heat equation \(\Delta u={\partial \over \partial t}u\), that is, for each variable x and y it satisfies the heat equation and the initial condition \(\lim_{t\rightarrow 0}H(x,y,t)=\delta_x(y)\), where \(\Delta\) is the usual negative definite Laplace operator on \(M\) and \(\delta_x(y)\) is the delta function; and the Green's function is defined in both cases by \(G(x,y)=\int_0^{\infty}H(x,y,t)-{1\over V}dt\), where \(V\) is the volume of the manifold. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0870.00033].