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general supervision of the finances of the University were confided to 

 a special Board the Curators of the Chest he was at once placed 

 upon this Board, and so remained during the thirty years which 

 elapsed before his death. He was also for many years a Curator of 

 the Bodleian Library, a Delegate of the Museum, and a member of 

 several other delegacies. In addition he discharged the duties of 

 Examiner in Mathematics, either for Moderations or for the Final 

 School, during seventeen years. 



Nor is this all. In 1868 Professor Price undertook the onerous 

 duties of the Secretary to the Delegates of the Press, and his skill in 

 matters of finance, combined with his capacity for business, became in 

 yet another direction of the greatest service to the University. During 

 nis tenure of this office, which lasted until 1884, the operations of the 

 "Clarendon Press" became largely extended, and the series of text- 

 books which made the name very widely known, as well as the 

 numerous important works in all branches of literature and science 

 which issued from this press, have done much towards the improve- 

 ment of education and the advancement of knowledge. 



When he resigned the office of Secretary he was elected to be a 

 permanent member of the Delegacy, so that his connection with the 

 Clarendon Press continued to the end of his life, and he never ceased 

 to render valuable assistance in the management of this Institution. 



After the creation, by the last University Commissioners in 1881, of 

 Boards of Faculties to control the studies of the University, Professor 

 Price was chosen to be chairman of the Board of Mathematics and 

 Natural Science. The discharge of this new duty was not always 

 unattended by difficulties, and it is a clear indication of the tact and 

 judgment with which he conducted the business, as well as of the 

 high esteem in which he was held by all those engaged in scientific 

 pursuits in Oxford, that he was unanimously re-elected to this office 

 every year until his death. 



When the Mastership of Pembroke College became vacant by the 

 death of Dr. E. Evans, and the Fellows failed to elect his successor, 

 the Chancellor of the University, acting as Visitor of the College, 

 appointed, in 1892, Professor Price to be the Head of the Society of 

 which he had been a member throughout the whole period of his 

 university career. 



Considering the incessant demands upon his time and attention, 

 arising from the very numerous duties which he had undertaken in 

 the University, it could scarcely be expected that Professor Price 

 would be able to find leisure for much original scientific work, and he 

 only contributed two papers to the Ashmolean Society on the prin- 

 ciples involved in mathematics, and one to the British Association on 

 ' The influence of the Rotation of the Earth on the apparent Path of a 

 heavy Particle/ 



