The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-19
Ii CONTE
WILL co EAST
To Deliver Lectures Before
Prominent Geological
Societies.
HIS GOLDEN WEDDING
Will Be Celebrated at His Old
Home in the State of
Georgia.
BIG DEMAND FOR LADYBUGs.
A New Jersey Scientist to Capture
Thou and Dollars
Worth.
BIG DEMAND FOR LADYBUGs

State University, has been granted a leave
of absence for six months, during which
time he will go East and to Europe, visit
ing the principal geological societies on
his journey, and will return to America in
time to celebrate his golden wedding, in
Georgia, the 14th of next January.
DR.. LIE Conte will leave for Buffalo some
time in July, where he will address the
American Science Association. After the
meeting at Buffalo he will go to Bangor,
Me-, in August, and speak before the
United States Society of Evolutioniss.
In September he will read paper before
| t e National Academy at Washington.
DR.. LIE Conte has been member OF this
| society for the past twenty-five years, but
has never yet been present at meeting.
In October he goes to Princeton to attend
the sesqui centennial of what is known as
Princeton University.
What is commonly called Princeton
University" says DIR. LIE Conte, sis not
Prince ton University. 1t is the College of
New Jersey, in fact. AT the meeting there
In October it will be officially named, or
rather changed to Princeton u University"
and DR.. LIE Conte is to be the representa-
tive from the University of California at
this one hundred and tiftieth anniversary
|
| cial invitation to England, where he will
| address the British Science Association at
Liverpool. During his stay in England he
will be the guest Of the association. If he
| has the time DR.. lie Conte will also visit
| Paris.
Upon returning from Europe in Deem
| Der he Will attend the meeting of the Geo.
logical Society of America, of which he
has been president for the past year. The
place of meeting has not yet been named,
but it is expected that it will be some
where in New York State. There is a
possibility" said Dr. lie Cpnte, to-day "of
| getting the American Science Association
to hold its next convention in San Fran
cisco. l have been in correspondence with
several mem bers, and they assure me that
they are willing to come. 1t depends en-
tlIely upon the railroad rates, and when
appear before the railroad association
ope to have with me concessions from
the railroad company which will assure
the convention for the Pacific Coast
The British Science Association meets
in Canada next year, and L feel fairly con-
tident that they can be induced to come
West and meet with the American Science
Association.
DR.. LIE Conte's golden wedding will be
celebrated either at Macon or Milledge-
viile Ga. on the 18th of next January 1t
is expected that all his children, his grand
children and other relations will be pres
ent. He will return the same month to
Berkeley to take up his lecture work of the
spring term.
He will give only one undergraduate
course in geology next year, and will con-
fine his almost entire attention to ad-
vanced work and to the completion of sew
erai books which he has commenced. He
is now engaged in reading the proofsheets
OF his revised work on geology, which will
be ready for the market at the beginning
of the fall term. Dr. lie Conte will take to
New DIRK with him, in July. his manu-
script on his new work on Light" and
will leave it with his publishers there.
Though DR.. lie Conte cele brated his sew
enty-sixth birthday last March, he is as
hale and hearty to-day as five years ago.
Catching Ladybugs.
BERKELEY, CAL, May 1s-Professo,
John B. Smith, head of the department
of entomology at the New Jersey expert
ment station, who has been on a tour Of
California gathering $1,000 worth of lady
bugs for his State, will arrive in Berkeley
tomorrow, and will be the guest of Pro.
lessor Woodwork. Exporting ybugs
from California is an entirely new line Of
industry. Importation of the insect fol
the purpose of destroying a certain scale
which collects on deciduous fruits grown
in the central and southern parts of the
State has been carried on for number oil
years past, but now the work of exporting
has commenced.
A new industry, therefore, has come into
existence, and it has already given prom.
Use of casting the business of the butterfly
chaser or the frog-trapper into utter insig.
, | nificance.
Professor Smith has been sent to this
, coast by the State OF New Jersey through
their agricultural experiment station for
the express purpose of collecting and
transmitting to ten points in his State
$1,000 worth of these ''coccinellidie." The
San Jose lddybug is the species for which
the entomologist is looking especially.
The San Jose scale has become seated il,
New jersey and it is his purpose to deter
mine whether the California bug will be
of service there in destroying the fruit
pest.
'.Thc ladybug," said Professor Wood.
worth to-day, "seemS to be the most sue
cessful of all the pest-destroying agents in
California, but in the Eastern States they
have not served with like efficacy.
1.-THE bug is the great California remedy.
In the East the spray and a process OF
fumigation are used, but the bugs have
not shown up very well. There Is perhaps
no insect in the world which is capable OF
causing greater damage to fruit interests
in the United States than the San Jose or
pernicious scale. We are looking with
much interest to the results of Professor
Smiths adventure out here on his bug
collecting tour, because of the great good
which will come from it if the insects work
succe ssfully in New Jersey"
Suffragists Will Hold Forth.
BERKELEY, CAL, Nav 1S.-The Citi
zens' Suffrage Society of Berkeley viii
hold a convention next Wednesday after
noon and evening at Shattuck Hall. Mrs
George w. Haight, president of the local
Citizens Suffrage Society will deliver the
address of welcome. The afternoon meet
ing will be addressed by Mrs. Albert Car
Isle and Miss Severance. Mrs. Carlisle
will speak on the subject, docs the
Wife and Mother Need the Ballot2" and
Miss Severance on the question, "Does
the Business Woman Need the Ballot p
The session in the evening will be adj
dressed by Miss Yates OF Michigan, and
!. by Attorney George w. Haight.
All the suffrage clubs of Oakland, Ala
J media and vicinity are expected to be rep
resented. The ladies have been invited to
speak before the West Berkeley Republi-
can Club, and the club, in turn, has been
invited to the suffrage convention. A