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Joseph LeConte (1823–1901)
LeConte, Joseph (lė-kont’). An American scientist; born in Liberty County, GA, Feb. 26, 1823; died in Yosemite Valley, July 6, 1901. He practiced medicine at Macon, GA, but in 1850 went to Cambridge, MA, where he studied natural history under Agassiz. He subsequently held several professorships, and after 1869 occupied the chair of geology and natural history in the University of California. ‘The Mutual Relations of Religion and Science’ appeared in 1874, and was followed by ‘Elements of Geology’ (1878); ‘Light’ (1881); ‘A Compend of Geology’ (1884); ‘Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought’ (1888).