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publication is evident from the fact that a second edition of the first 

 two volumes was called for and partly supplied before the last volume 

 issued from the press. It has now no doubt been superseded by more 

 recent books special treatises on subjects to which Professor Price 

 devoted chapters or sections but the second edition of the fourth 

 volume, which was carefully revised and brought up to the time of 

 publication, may still be very useful to a student ; he will find in it an 

 excellent account of the state at which the study of Rigid Dynamics 

 had arrived in 1889. % 



Professor Price was elected into the Royal Society in 1852, and, 

 besides assisting in various ways in carrying on the work of the 

 Society as a member of committees, he served on the council for an 

 aggregate period of eight years, during two of which he held the office 

 of Vice-President. He was also for many years one of the representa- 

 tives of the Society on the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory 

 at Greenwich. He was, moreover, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society, of the London Mathematical Society, and of the Physical 

 Society of London, an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 

 and a Fellow of Winchester College. 



Until the summer of 1898 Professor Price remained in the full dis- 

 charge of the numerous duties which had accumulated upon him, but 

 advancing years and signs of failing health induced him then to seek 

 partial relief from work and anxiety by resigning his professorship and 

 some of his other offices. There seemed at that time to be good reason 

 to hope that rest would restore him to health, and that still for some 

 years the University, which he had conspicuously served so long and 

 so well, might continue to profit by his experience and his advice ; but 

 his strength rapidly gave way, and he died in Pembroke College on 

 the 29th of December, 1898, in the 81st year of his age. 



R. B. C. 



