56 PROCEEDINGS OP WASHINGTON MEETING. 



A third paper was then presented, on — 



MUIR GLACIER AND ITS VICINITY. 

 BY II. P. CUSHING. 



This paper was illustrated with lantern views, and is published in The 

 American Geologist, volume viii, 1891. 



The Society then adjourned. 



Session of Tuesday Morning, August 25. 



The Society assembled at 10 o'clock a. m. ; acting President Gilbert 

 in the chair. 



Professor Edward Orton, in behalf of the special committee appointed 

 on August 24, presented the following report : 



EULOGIUM OF ALEXANDER WINCHELL. 



The Geological Society of America hereby puts on record the expression 

 of its profound sense of loss in the removal by death from its councils, 

 its service, and the honors which it has to bestow, of one of the most effi- 

 cient and influential of its founders, Dr. Alexander Winchell. Promi- 

 nent in all of the preliminary work that led to the organization, he has 

 been an office-bearer of the Society from the date of its establishment, 

 and at its last annual meeting he was made its president. 



Our sense of loss is due to the fact that in the death of Dr. Winchell, 

 stricken down as lie was in the fulness of his productive power, geolog- 

 ical science loses one of its foremost representatives in this country. 

 Forty years of arduous and uninterrupted work stand charged to his 

 credit in the records of American geology. During this period the sci- 

 ence itself, in common with all other branches of organized knowledge, 

 has been greatly transformed. The older subdivisions have been deep- 

 ened and extended ; new subdivisions have been established. To all of 

 this progress Dr. Winchell was from the first an important contributor; 

 with all of it he kept abreast. 



Dr. Winchell's first important work was done in stratigraphy and 

 paleontology. As state geologist of Michigan, be helped to work out. in 

 an important and interesting section of the St. Lawrence basin, the order 

 of the geologieal series, and he worked it out so well that from that time 

 forward he who runs may read. In his later years he took an active 

 part in the study of the unsolved problems of the Archean system, and 



