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cieiy, member of the International Geological Congress atid 

 once vice-president of the same, member of the California 

 State Medical Society, honorary member of the South Caro- 

 lina State Medical Society. He was also associated with the 

 editorship of the Jourjial op Geology and Science. 



Professor Le Conte's articles and books have been trans- 

 lated into other languages, and letters and tributes came to 

 hira from all parts of the world. Those expressions of love 

 and veneration that he most appreciated came, however, from 

 his classes. His students were his children, his comrades, 

 and his friends. As one of the fathers of the University, his 

 family is the largest in the State, numbering many hundreds, 

 and these boys and girls speak his name reverently in their 

 homes, where the influence of his cheerful, simple, noble 

 character has made itself felt. He was a great scientist, but 

 a greater man. In his ideal home life and in all of his rela- 

 tions with society he was the courtly gentleman and the 

 charming companion. His book on "Evolution and Its Re- 

 lation to Religious Thought" has done more toward settling 

 the doubts and calming the troubled souls of the young than 

 many volumes of sermons preached by a less inspired man. 



Since '96, the twenty-sixth of February has been celebrated 

 by the students of the University' in a way that inadequately 

 expressed their veneration for the great teacher. His long 

 desk was completely covered with flowers, there was always 

 some appropriate gift made to him, and the speech of present- 

 ation by a well-known student was always received in a gra- 

 cious manner by Professor Le Coute. On his last birthday he 

 was in Georgia, and he thought the day would pass unno- 

 ticed by the students, but as he was sitting down to his birth- 

 day dinner with his wife, his children, his grandchildren, and 

 his great-grandchildren, in his native State, a telegram came 

 from the students of the University of his adopted vState, con- 

 gratulating him upon the rich, complete years of his H.^e. 

 Professor Le Conte was intensely gratified at the arrival of the 

 telegram, but his surprise was great, on reaching Berkeley, to 



