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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



THE LE CONTE MEMORIAL LODGE, leagues and friends, and members of the 



Joseph Le CONTE died in the Yosem- Sierra Club. It is most appropriate 



ite Valley in 1901, and a memorial tll:,t there should be erected to Le 

 lodge has now been erected there in his j <-' onte a memorial of this character, in 



honor by the Sierra Club. As the illus- this region that he loved so well and 



trations show the lodge is built in a where he died, not a mere monument, 



manner appropriate to its beautiful but a building useful in promoting the 



surroundings. The stonework is of out-of-door interests and scientific 



The Le Conte Memorial Lodge. Photographed by Hallett-Taylor Co. 



granite obtained in the vicinity with 

 the weathered surface exposed, and the 

 interior roof beams are uncovered. 

 The main reading room is 36 x 25 feet 

 in size. The lodge is overshadowed 

 by the great cliffs of Glacier Point ; 

 there is a fine grove of trees in the 

 rear, and the entrance commands a 

 magnificent view. The structure was 

 designed by Mr. John White and 

 erected at a cost of about $5,000, sub- 

 scribed by Le Conte s students, col- 



pursuits, which in his life time he 

 greatly forwarded. 



There has recently been published by 

 the Appletons an autobiography of Le 

 Conte which, though written only as a 

 manuscript for his family, presents a 

 pleasing account of an interesting and 

 lovable man, who held an important 

 place in the scientific life of the country 

 for more than fifty years. Joseph Le 

 Conte was born on a Georgia planta- 

 tion in 1823. His father was a scien- 



