MEMOIR OF N. H. WINCHELL 31 



period, and possibly even before our continental glaciation began. This 

 very interesting line of investigation was the theme of the last paper 

 written by Professor Winchell, entitled "The Antiquity of Man in Amer- 

 ica Compared with Europe," which he presented as a lecture before the 

 Iowa Academy of Sciences in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Friday evening, April 

 24, only a week before he died. 



The work on which he was engaged for the Minnesota Historical 

 Society during his last eight years, based on very extensive collections, 

 by Hon. J. Y. Brower, of aboriginal implements from Minnesota and 

 other States west to the Eocky Mountains and south to Kansas, enabled 

 Professor Winchell to take up very fully the questions of man's antiquity 

 and of his relation to the Ice Age. From that later work resulted a 

 quarto volume, published in 1911, entitled ''The Aborigines of Minne- 

 sota," 761 pages, with many illustrations and about 500 maps of groups 

 of Indian mounds. 



This last volume of his publications and the twenty-four Annual Ee- 

 ports and six quarto volumes of Final Eeports of the Geological and 

 Natural History Survey of Minnesota are monuments more enduring 

 than bronze, which will be consulted and studied during all the coming 

 centuries by investigators of the origin and history of the races of man- 

 kind and by all interested in geology or earth lore, not only in the schools 

 and universities of Minnesota, but of all the world. 



Newton Horace AVinchell was married to Miss Charlotte Sophia Imus, 

 of Galesburg, Michigan, August 24, 1864. She survives him, as also do 

 all their five children, namely, Horace Vaughn Winchell, geologist and 

 mining assayer, Minneapolis ; Ima Caroline, Mrs. Frank N. Stacy, Min- 

 neapolis; Avis, Mrs. Ulysses Shennan Grant, Evanston, Illinois; Prof. 

 Alexander Newton Winchell, Madison, Wisconsin, and Louise, Mrs. D. 

 Draper Dayton, Minneapolis. 



Professor Winchell had enjoyed somewhat good health until the last 

 week, although suffering in some degree with a chronic trouble of many 

 years, and his death resulted from a needed surgical operation done on 

 the preceding day. 



He was my friend and it is hard to say Farewell ! 



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