Bartholomew Price. 31 



The change in the educational position may be taken as an instance 

 of what has been accomplished in this period. Though the monopoly 

 of classics and mathematics had been abolished two years before it 

 commences, the two new directions of intellectual activity then opened 

 to students had been followed by very few. At the present time, in 

 addition to the two original roads to University honours, these distinc- 

 tions can be reached through natural science, jurisprudence, modern 

 history, theology, Oriental languages, English language and literature, 

 and civil law, and the increase in the number of the names included in 

 the class lists of the final examination for honours affords unmistakable 

 evidence as to the effect produced by the extended facilities offered to 

 students. This number was 175 in 1852, the last year in which 

 classics and mathematics stood alone. In 1855 it fell to 144, probably 

 from causes external to the University. In 1898 it had risen to 450, 

 and to this should be added 42, on account of the women then admitted 

 to the examinations. 



In effecting all the changes to which reference has been made, Pro- 

 fessor Price took a leading part, and his wise counsel, his sound judg- 

 ment, and his influential support were always at the service of the 

 workers in the cause of progress. 



He was especially interested in promoting the study of natural 

 science, and he strove earnestly, whenever it was possible, to secure 

 the means of supplying efficient instruction in the different branches 

 of this subject. He was one of the small but enthusiastic band of 

 supporters of the then scarcely existent School, who saw the importance 

 of uniting all the appliances for teaching science into a single institu- 

 tion, and who eventually succeeded in persuading the University to 

 carry their plan into execution. Most of these pioneers have passed 

 away, and comparatively few are now living who remember the fierce 

 opposition they had to encounter before victory was secured, but the 

 University museum stands as a memorial of their energy and devotion, 

 and the group of laboratories now clustering round the original 

 building opened in 1860, is evidence of the lasting success of the 

 struggle, while it bears testimony to the efforts made during the last 

 thirty-five years to improve the University as a place of scientific 

 training. 



All proposals for the extension of the museum were warmly sup- 

 ported by Professor Price, and it is not too much to say that they were 

 indebted for their accomplishment, in no small degree, to his judicious 

 advocacy in the Council and in Convocation. 



But Professor Price's labours as a teacher, a legislator, and a reformer 

 constitute by no means the whole of the services he rendered to the 

 University, and to the cause of education ; he took also a most active 

 part in the administration of many of the most important depart- 

 ments. When, in 1868, the management of the estates and the 



