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essor John LeConte, and Mr. T. H. Hittell and Gen. J. F. Hough- 
ton were appointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect and 
condolence. 
June 1, 7891. President Harkness in the chair. 
Donations to the museum were reported from William Ryan, 
Walter E. Bryant, Mrs. J. Lawley, Adolph T. W. Erzgraber, Dr. 
J. G. Cooper, J. R. Chalker, Miss Alice Eastwood, Dr. E. S. Clark 
and Mrs. R. A. A. Wright. 
The Librarian reported 443 additions to the library, calling par- 
ticular attention to the donation by Dr. Gustav Eisen, of 279 books 
and pamphlets on geology, zoology, anatomy and botany. 
A vote of thanks was tendered to Dr. Eisen for his valuable 
donation. 
Lieutenant John P. Finley read a paper on the Hot Winds of 
California, illustrated with numerous maps and charts. 
Specimens of opals in the matrix from Mexico, Australia and 
Hungary, presented by Melville Atwood, were exhibited and a 
short paper on opals by Mr. Atwood was read. 
Mr. T. H. Hittell read the following memorial of the late Professor 
John Le Conte: 
A great man and an honored member of this Academy has passed 
away from amongst us—a man loved by all who knew him for the 
kindness and geniality of his disposition, revered for the elevation 
and purity of his character and eminent for the breadth and depth 
of his scientific and scholarly attainments. Professor John Le 
Conte, of the University of California, closed his long and honor- 
able career at Berkeley on April 29, 1891. He was born in Liberty 
County, Georgia, on December 4, 1818, and was consequently 
seventy-two years and a few months old at the time of his death. 
He received a preparatory training under the tuition of the celebrated 
Alexander H. Stephens, and in 1835 entered Franklyn College, 
afterwards known as the University of Georgia, where he graduated 
with high honors in 1838. 
From an early age he manifested a remarkable taste for scientific 
subjects, and in college exhibited a decided preference for those 
branches of study which were connected with nature and physics. 
Almost immediately after graduation he proceeded northward, en- 
tered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of 
New York, and received from that institution the degree of M. D. in 
