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taught, let him have the credit of a prophet and a public bene- 

 factor. 



In this connection it is but just that I also mention the name 

 of another Pennsylvanian, the Honorable Washington Townsend, 

 who, when a member of Congress, was chairman of the Committee 

 on Public Lands, which started the late Franklin Hough on his 

 productive career as a compiler of forest law and literature for 

 our national use. 



It is a matter of regret that Mr. Price did not live to witness 

 the observance of Arbor Day, when the school-children all over 

 the State weie engaged in planting the trees under whose shade 

 future generations might rejoice. Those who see what the day 

 has done in Nebraska will recognize something more than senti- 

 ment in its observance. 



In November and December, 1817, Mr. Price read before the 

 American Philosophical Society a paper on Sylviculture. This 

 apparently was suggested by the duty of utilizing the income 

 from the Michaux legacy. It is, however, important as being 

 among the first studied papers upon that subject published in 

 this city. Considering how much we were then in the dark, as 

 to the precise facts and statistics of American forestry, it is a 

 wonderfully clear statement of wants and remedies as applied to 

 our own soil. A year later he supplemented it by a briefer one. 



On March 20th, 1879, the Numismatic and Antiquarian Soci- 

 ety of Philadelphia presented him, its President, with a silver 

 medal in commemoration of the twentj^-first anniversary of the 

 foundation of that organization. Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, who 

 has earned so distinguished a place in anthropological science, 

 made the presentation address, after Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., had 

 delivered and explained the medal itself. On its obverse this 

 medal bore the name and portrait of Mr. Price, and on the re- 

 verse were the seal and date of the foundation of the Society. 

 Mr. Price made a brief and felicitous response. 



Greatly as Mr. Price valued such a tribute of respect and 



