SKETCH OF PROF. JOHN LE CONTE. g 



tenable. This conclusion is now universally accepted, great as 

 was the value of Maury's work in the pioneer days of meteorology. 



In No. 23 it is shown that solar light has no sensible influence 

 on combustion. This paper, as well as Nos. 16 and 17, was exten- 

 sively reproduced in Europe. The same remark applies to Nos. 

 34 and 36, which have been already discussed. 



In Nos. 35 and 39 an account is given of investigations regard- 

 ing the depth, transparency, and color-tints displayed in some re- 

 markable bodies of water. 



No. 35 contains the description and discussion of some unique 

 experiments on the propagation of vibrations through water, the 

 source of disturbance being explosions of great violence. The re- 

 sults were wholly new, and attracted much attention in Europe. 



In Nos. 37 and 41 the principles of capillarity are very thor- 

 oughly discussed, and illustrated by some new experiments. 



Many others of these papers might be summarized, but only 

 by exceeding the limits of a brief biographical sketch. 



SCIENTIFIC. 



1. " Case of Carcinoma of the Stomach " (" New York Medical Gazette," 

 1842). 



2. " On the Mechanism of Vomiting" ("New York Lancet," 1842). 



3. " On Carcinoma in General, and Cancer of the Stomach " (ibid., 1842). 



4. " On the Explanation of the Difference in Size of the Male and Female 

 Urinary Bladder" (ibid., 1842). 



5. " An Essay on the Origin of Syphilis " (" New York Journal of Medical and 

 Collateral Sciences," 1844). 



0. " Eemarks on Cases of Inflamed Knee-Joint" (ibid., 1844). 



7. " Extraordinary Effects of a Stroke of Lightning. — Singular Phenomena" 

 (ibid., 1844). 



8. Observations on Geophagy" (Southern Medical and Surgical Journal," 

 1845). 



9. " Experiments illustrating the Seat of Volition in the Alligator, or Oroco- 

 dilus Lucius of Cuvier. With Strictures on the Reflex Theory " (" New York 

 Journal of Medical and Collateral Sciences," 1845 and 1846). 



-— 10. " Statistical Researches on Cancer " (" Southern Medical and Surgical 

 Journal," 1846). 



11. "On the Quarantine Regulations at Savannah, Ga." ("New York Journal 

 of Medical and Collateral Sciences," 1846). 



12. "Remarks on the Physiology of the Voice " ("Southern Medical and Sur- 

 gical Journal," 1846. 



13. " Dr. Bennet Dowler's Contributions to the Natural History of the Alli- 

 gator " (ibid., 1847). 



14. "On Sulphuric Ether" (ibid,, 1847). 



15. "The Philosophy of Medicine: An Address " (ibid., 1849). 



16. "Observations on a Remarkable Exudation of Ice from the Stems of 

 Vegetables, and on a Singular Protrusion of Icy Columns from Certain Kinds of 

 Earth during Frosty Weather " (" Proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science," 1850 ; also, " Philosophical Magazine," 1850). 



