Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Joseph Le Conte: 1823 1901 Though graduated as a physician, Le Conte did not intend to practice as such, but considered the medical course as being (at that time) the best preparation for a scientific career. His reading of the Vestiges of Creation about this time was his first introduction to the subject of evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.