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Va. After a special course at the University of Virginia lie took 

 up work at Biltmore under Mr. Pinchot, and was thus one of the 

 first Americans to turn towards what was then almost an unknown 

 profession in the United States. One year later he went to Ger- 

 many to obtain a complete technical preparation for his life work. 

 Two years at the University of Munich were supplemented by a 

 year of practical experience in various European forests. This 

 work abroad was largely guided by the friendly counsels of Sir 

 Dietrich Brandis. On his return to America he engaged in prac- 

 tical work at Biltmore and in the North Woods. In June, 1899, 

 he entered the Division of Forestry of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture as agent ; a year later he was promoted to the position 

 of Superintendent of Working Plans, and in 1901, when the old 

 Division of Forestry was raised to a Bureau, became its assistant 

 chief. The transfer of the National Forests to the charge of the 

 Forest Service in 1905 gave a new and broader field for the em- 

 ployment of Mr. Price's remarkable organizing and executive ca- 

 pacity ; largely to him belongs the credit for the work which estab- 

 lished national forestry in the United States on a sound and per- 

 manent basis. 



In January, 1910, his connection with the Forest Service was ter- 

 minated ; and he shortly afterward became Treasurer, and subse- 

 quently Vice-President, of the National Conservation Association. 

 At the time of his death he was also consulting forester to the gov- 

 ernment of British Columbia, forester of the Letchworth Park Ar- 

 boretum, and adviser in forestry matters of the estate of the late 

 George W. Vanderbilt. In addition to a number of reports and 

 articles on forestry, he was the author of "The Land We Live In," 

 an admirable popular book on conservation written especially for 

 boys, and of a work still in manuscript, on business organization. 

 To the latter subject his attention had been especially turned in 

 connection with the study of the Government's business system 

 made by President Roosevelt's so-called "Keep Commission," or 

 Committee on Departmental Methods. Though not himself a 

 member of that committee, Mr. Price had much to do with its 

 work and with the organization and direction of the numerous 

 assistant committees which carried out in detail the various sub- 

 divisions of the inquiry. In this work as well as in that which he 

 performed as Associate Forester he rendered a public service of 

 permanent value. 



