Joseph Le Conte, the most honored and beloved of American men of science, pro- 

 fessor of geology and natural history in the University of California, the author of im- 

 portant contributions to geology, natural history, psychology and education, president 

 in 1892 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, president in 1896 

 of the Geological Society of America, one of the editors of this Journal, died in the Yo- 

 semite Yalley, on July 6, at the age of eighty-eight years. 



