30 Obituary Notices of Felloius deceased. 



REV. BARTHOLOMEW PRICE. 1818-1898. 



The Eev. BARTHOLOMEW PRICE, D.D., was born in 1818, at Coin 

 St. Denis, Gloucestershire, of which parish his father, the Rev. William 

 Price, was rector. He entered the University of Oxford as scholar 

 of Pembroke College, and graduated B.A. in Michaelmas Term, 1840, 

 with a third class in Literis Humanioribus, and a first class in niathe- 

 matics. 



In 1842 he gained the University Mathematical Scholarship, and in 

 1844 he was elected Fellow of his College, in which he subsequently 

 held the offices of Tutor, Mathematical Lecturer, and Bursar. 



In 1853 he succeeded the Rev. G. L. Cooke, as Sedleian Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy, and thus became a member of the University 

 staff, then less numerous than at present, on which the other repre- 

 sentatives of mathematics and natural science were Buckland, Baden 

 Powell, Daubeny, Donkin, Ogle, and Walker. 



Besides those who received instruction from him in his capacities of 

 Professor and College Lecturer, a considerable number of private 

 pupils obtained from him the more detailed tuition required in the 

 higher branches of mathematics, so that for many years he took a 

 large share of the teaching in these subjects in Oxford. 



In this work he aimed at a high ideal, and by his energy, by his care 

 in training those who sought his assistance, and by his power of 

 inspiring others with enthusiasm in the acquisition of knowledge 

 similar to that which determined his own efforts, he did much to raise 

 the standard of mathematical attainment in the University. 



To the last he took the keenest interest in the progress of the 

 Mathematical School, and when the pressure of other duties compelled 

 him to take a smaller share in the actual work of teaching, he had the 

 satisfaction of seeing it carried on to a considerable extent by his 

 pupils, many of whom had become professors or college lecturers. 



In 1855, Professor Price became a member of the Hebdomadal 

 Council, then only in the second year of its existence, and on each 

 occasion that his six-years'-term of office expired, he was re-elected, so 

 that he remained continuously until the summer of 1898 a member 

 of the body by which all University legislation is initiated. 



During these forty-three years the changes which have been intro- 

 duced into all departments have been so great, that it would be 

 impossible to form a correct idea of the condition of the University at 

 the beginning of the period from any observations of what prevails 

 now. 



