The Le Confe Memorial Lodge. 67 



top, 9x5 feet, supported by two sections of the unbarked 

 trunk of a large yellow pine. 



The location of the lodge in the valley is most pleas- 

 ing from a scenic standpoint. It is almost immediately 

 under the towering walls of Glacier Point, on a gentle 

 slope that runs back to the base of the cHffs, and has a 

 background setting of a grove of beautiful trees. From 

 the entrance of the building a fine view of the Half (or 

 Le Conte) Dome is obtained. 



Immediately after the death of Professor Joseph 

 Le Conte in Yosemite Valley, the construction of a me- 

 morial there in his honor suggested itself to his friends. 

 A committee composed of Professor A. C. Lawson, 

 Professor Wm. R. Dudley, Dr. Edward R. Taylor, Mr. 

 Elliott McAllister, and Mr. Wm. E. Colby, was appointed 

 by the Directors of the Club to accomplish this object. 

 They decided that instead of a monument of conventional 

 type it would be much more appropriate and more in 

 keeping with the wishes of Professor Le Conte, were 

 he there to express them, and also typical of his active 

 and useful life, to erect a lodge which would serve as a 

 memorial and at the same time be of direct benefit to 

 others. 



This committee at once undertook the raising of the 

 amount estimated to be necessary to effect this plan. 

 They laid the matter systematically before large groups 

 of the professor's friends and asked them to aid by con- 

 tributing to the five-thousand-dollar fund necessary. 

 Many prominent San Francisco merchants, the student 

 body, alumni, and faculty of the University of California, 

 many of the faculty of Stanford, mining engineers, geolo- 

 gists, Professor Le Conte's relatives, many others among 



