1886.] ijJtJ [Rothrock. 



sion told plainly enough that he had a courage beyond intimida- 

 tion. In pursuit of wrong-doers, he was simply merciless and 

 unrelenting. Yet his admiration for industry and honest}' were 

 just as marked. 



The Pennsylvania Colonization Society requested Mr. Price to 

 prepare a biographical sketch of its former Vice-President, 

 Dr. Edward F. Kivinus, who was also his personal fiiend. This 

 sketch was an affectionate tribute to the memory of one who was 

 an associate in a congenial cause. 



Early in 187G lie prepared and read before this body a paper 

 upon "The Glacial Epochs." 



It is a review of the opinions held by tbe leading advocates of 

 glacial action. How far time modified Mr. Price's objections to 

 the hypothesis I have no means of knowing. It is certain, how- 

 ever, that he was more favorably inclined to it during his later 

 years. The paper itself is a marvel of cross-questioning. Hardly 

 any other than a legal mind could have produced it. 



Prior to 18G1 the question arose as to what were the legal 

 uses of the so-called Penn Squares, which were in the older part 

 of the city. Several citizens, who were joint-committee men of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Library Company of Phil- 

 adelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of 

 the Fine Arts, and the Franklin Institute, asked Mr. Price's 

 opinion upon the subject. This was subsequently published. 

 It is well enough that the conclusions reached be given here ; 

 for they cannot be too well known, or too widely circulated 

 among our citizens. Mr. Price held that the Central Square 

 could and should, in justice to Penn's wishes and without any 

 betrayal of public trust, be used as a building site for such edu- 

 cational institutions as were represented by the above commit- 

 teemen ; because these five Penn Squares were laid down by the 

 first surveyor-general (Thomas Holmes), and it was specified, by 

 implication, if not directly, in the "advertisement annexed to 

 the List of First Purchasers," that, whereas the four others 



