The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-21
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS,
Professor LIE Conte Lectures
on Color and How 1t Is
Perceived.
Berkeley Capital and Oil at Summer
handsome New and Promising
Football Men.

BERKELEY, CAL, Sept. 90. - DR..
Joseph LIE Conte lectured before the
Science Association this evening on "Color
Perception and Color Blindness
He said: "As there are two kinds of per-
ception of sound, viz, simple sound or
sound as noise, loud or faint, and sound as
tone or musical pitch, high or low, so
there are two kinds of perception of light,
viz, light as intensity or brightness or
shade and light as color. In both sound
and light the one is question of strength
of vibration or wave height, the other of
rate OF vibration or wave length.
1.-The perception of color is simple per-
ception, incapable OF analysis, and, there
fore, is doubtless connected with retinal
structure of some sort Mrs. Franklin sup
poses that these events in all parts of the
retina a fundamental visual substance,
which, by photo-chemical changes, affects
the retina in such wise as to produce the
sensation of white of all shades and which,
therefore, may be called gray substance.
Again, it is further believed that color is
perceived by means of physical response
to light vibrations of different rates-and
the simplest conception and that which
was first adopted is that of responsive
vibration on the part of the cones of the
retina."
Hutchinson Will Play Football.
Dwight Hutchinson, U. c., 1913, who, IN
1892, while a member of the Oakland
High School team, was regarded as one of
the most promising halfbacks on the
coast, but through an injury of the knee
was forced to quit the game, will line up
next Monday on the football field and try
for the varsity eleven.
Manager Lang was very jubilant this
morning over the return of Hutchinson,
baf hot Po,1
some, the university will have two men
back OF the line who are hard to beat.
He will be required to wear knee sup
porter, however, while in practice, as a
preventive of future accidents. The ply
sicians pronounce his once-iniured mem
Der perfectly sound, but have advised that
precautions be taken against being again
disabled.
Douglass of the Utica mine. who is said
to be one of the most promising men out
of the entire freshman class, appeared on
the gridiron this afternoon for the first
time.
Saturday practice for the footballers will
commence tomorrow morning.
To Bore for Oil.
A number of local capitalists, among
whom are Thomas Ham, George Schmidt
and Samuel Wakeham, are about to form a
corporation for the purpose of boring for
ana nahdllnS OIL. Inc location or the OIL
field which they intend to develop is at
Summerland, Santa Barbara County.
Mr.. Ham believes that the piece of
property there which he is in possession of
will yield sufficient oil, if properly devel-
oped, to justify the formation of com
pany with a capital stock of from $12, goo
to $4,000. In speaking of the work which
is now being carried on at the well which
he sank short time ago, he said: az had
a 10,0O0-g gallon tank set up last week, and
if we cannot ship it by next week, we
must stop pumping. We have every pros
pect of great success"
Glee Club Will Sing at Sutro's.
The University Glee Club will render
three selections tomorrow afternoon in
connection with Shakespeare's Gas You
Like It," to be played at Sutro Heights
This will be the first time this seas IN that
the entire club has performed together.
When Edward l made a prisoner OF
the Countess of Buchan he decided not to
put Der to death, but instead ordered a
large iron cage to be made in which she
was exposed as prisoner of war to the