Rothrock.] ^7 & [Nov. 19, 



Royal Geographical and Astronomical Societies, Statistical 

 Society, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Meteorological Office, "Nature," Mr. John Hampden, Lon- 

 don; Natural History Society, Montreal; Institut Canadien- 

 Francais, Ottawa; Canadian Institute, Toronto ; Prof. Thomas 

 Sterry Hunt, lion. Eobert C. Winthrop, Boston; Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Prof. Samuel 

 H. Scudder, Cambridge ; American Chemical Society, "The 

 Critic," New York ; Brooklyn Entomological Society ; Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Messrs. Henry 

 C. Lea and Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins 

 University, Prof. Ira Remsen, Baltimore ; United States 

 Civil Service Commission, Smithsonian Institution, Hydro- 

 graphic Office, Washington ; Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., Au- 

 gusta, Ga. ; Cincinnati Society of Natural History; Rev. 

 Stephen D. Peet, Chicago ; Professors C. F. de Lendero and 

 Raul Prieto, Mexico. 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock read by appointment an obituary notice 

 of the late Hon. Eli K. Price, LL.D., Vice-President of the 

 Society. 



And, on motion, the Society was adjourned. 



Biographical Memoir of the late Honorable Eli K. Price, LL.D., 



by J. T. Rothrock, Professor of Botany in the 



University of Pennsylvania. 



(Read before the American Philosophical Society, Nov. 19, 1886.) 



On the twentieth day of July, 1*7 07, Eli Kirk Price was born 

 in East Bradford township, County of Chester, and State of 

 Pennsylvania. There was nothing in his surroundings, or in his 

 opportunities, which indicated for him a life of more than the 

 average success or usefulness. It is true that his home lay in 

 the centre of wljat, for our young country, is classic soil. *JIe 

 must in later years have heard from those, who witnessed the 

 battle of Brandywine, the tales and trials of that day which was 



