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JOSEPH LE CONTE AT YOSEMITE. 

 JUI.Y 4-6, 1901. 



BY EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR. 



"If it were now to die, 

 'T were now to be most happy " 



Othello. 



His hoary head, lustrous with all that's best 

 Of humankind, by fame immortal made, 

 In death's last agony he meetly laid 

 Upon Yosemite's titanic breast. 



For years their mutual love had been confessed. 

 And when once more her glories he surveyed, 

 Such raptures in his deepest bosom played, 

 Fate dared not tempt him further to be blest. 



Her beauteous leaves of cedar, oak and pine. 

 She lavish gave for garlands to entwine 

 His coffin fashioned from her teeming store ; 



And 'neath the reverent gaze of her great walls, 

 While throbbed in muffled tones her saddened falls 

 His clay, star-lighted, left her evermore. 



AN ESTIMATE OF THE LIFE WORK OF DR. 

 JOSEPH LE CONTE. 



BY EUGENE W. HILGARD. 



npHE death of Dr. Joseph Le Conte removes one of the 

 -■- foremost thinkers and scientific men of the time; one 

 whose writings and modes of thought have influenced the pro- 

 gress of science, and of scientific as well as popular opinion, 

 throughout the civilized world. He was prominent in the 

 now fast-thinning ranks of those who, like Louis Agassiz, J. 

 D. Dana and Asa Gray, in the New, and L)^ell, Oersted, Dar- 

 win and Wallace, in the Old World, thought and found it not 

 only possible but necessary to be something more than spe- 



