The San Francisco call., 1898-02-26

At the conclusion of his brief reply, Pro- lessor Le Conte received the individual congratulations of his young friends.
 The esteem in which Professor Le Conte has been held for the nearly three decades in which he has labored at the University of California has grown to feeling al- most of reverence Scarce a student at Berkeley fails to bare his head when ven erable Professor Joe" passes by. Years have left their mark upon the veteran teacher; not only has time whitened his flowing locks and bent his frame, but as he climbs from the lower campus to his recitation room in South Hall he stops oftener to rest under the old oaks. But the kindly, twinkling eyes shine just as brightly, the voice is just as vigorous as
 ever. His labors at the university are still extending their field. While he has been relieved recently of considerable ele-
 mentary work, the scope of his advanced courses has been widened. His newly in- stituted lectures on evolution have been better attended than almost any other course at the university, in spite of the fact that credit for the work was pur- posely withheld in order to keep down the
 number of those who would otherwise overcrowd the recitation-room.
 Few lives have been devoted more use- fully to the course of science than that of Professor Le Conte At the age of IS he graduated with the degree of A. B. from Franklin College of the University of Georgia. An inherited love of science, his father, Louis Le Conte, having been an enthusiastic botanist, and having built OH HIS pldUtdtlOn d DOIdnlcdl garden, once considered the best in the country, caused
 Joseph Le Conte to study medicine. In 1S45 he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.
 For five years he practiced medicine in
 Macon, Ga, near which the Le Conts home still stands.
 | Acquaintance and friendship with the famous Professor Louis Agassiz turned his attention more closely to the subject of geology, and in 1851, with Professor
 Agassiz, he made careful study of the nd fn | 1852 to 1856 he occupied the chair of geolo-
 gy and natural history in the University of Georgia. For the following six years he held a similar chair in the College, of South Carolina, until it was disbanded on account of the breaking out of the
 Civil War. In 1868 Professor Le Conte four years his senior, received a call from the University of California, and from 1869 to 1884, when Professor John Le Conte died. the two brothers labored in
 lessor Joe" devoting his attention more
 especially to geology and zoology and Professor John to physics.
 Professor Le Conte has written num- Der of books of first rank in scientific literature Many honors have been be-
 slowed upon him by various. colleges;
 among them the degrees of A. M. and LL.D. from his alma mater, the Univer- sity of Georgia, and the degree of B.. S.
 from Harvard College. At present, be, sides occupying the chair of geology and natural history at Berkeley, Professor Le Conte holds the title of honorary profes- sor of biology in the college of dentistry and special lecturer in the veterinary de- partment.
 Berkeley News Notes.
 BERKELEY. Feb. 25.-The Students
 Congress on March will debate the ques- tion, Resolved, that the mile limit law should be repealed" The speakers will
 be: Affirmative-Newmark, Christensen, Goedall and Creed; negative-Hohfeld,
 Fully, Brickley and Downer.
 ebrated the twentieth anniversary of its institution last night.
 President Cyrus Northrupp of the Uni versity of Minnesota visited the univer- sity at Berkeley to-day.
 Next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock a special committee of the Board of Re-
 gents, consisting of Regents Kellogg, Rodgers, Reinstein, Hallidie, Chase and
 John E. Budd, will meet in San Fran cisco to take action on the request of the
 faculty of the medical college that it be
 placed on the same footing as the col leges at Berkeley.
 A match shoot between Company B, N. G. C., of Visalia,. and the University Ca
 dets will be held at Shell Mound to- morrow. Berkeley will be represented by
 Mcclure, Fairchild, Julien. McGregor, Rawlings, Beville, Vanderbilt, West, Pierce, P. l.. Jackson, Wedemeyer and Bender.
 At the quarterly conference of the Ala meda County w. c. T. U. to-day at Stiles Hall a petition was circulated requesting the street car companies to prohibit the use of tobacco on any of their cars.
 Professor G. M. Stratton will address the Science Association next Tuesday evening on Some Recent Experiments in Inverted Vision."