74 Minnesota .lead any of Science 



the Academy will be given, without occupying too much time, as 

 there are a number of papers or addresses to be given. 



Professor Winchell came to Minneapolis in September, 1872, 

 when he was thirty-three years of age. He was called by Presi- 

 dent Folwell of the state university, to be state geologist and pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of Minnesota. In December 

 of the same year, Prof. Winchell proposed to Dr. A. E. Johnson 

 and later to several other persons, the propriety of organizing a 

 state association, to be known as the Geological, Paleontological, 

 Archaeological Society of Minnesota. On December 28th (1872) 

 he called a meeting at the office of Drs. Johnson & Simpson, 

 Wensinger Block, corner of Central avenue and Main street, 

 East Division, to consider the organization of the Minnesota 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. It was organized by Drs. A. E. 

 Johnson, A. E. Ames, C. E. Rogers, Charles Simpson ; W. H. 

 Leonard, M.D. ; Dr. Stoneman, dentist ; Dr. A. F. Elliott ; Mr. 

 A. W. Williamson, Professor of Mathematics in the university; 

 E. W. Harvey, Superintendent of Schools for St. Anthony; and 

 Prof. Winchell. 



Although the really active and most efficient member for the 

 forty-one years for which he was more actively engaged and ex- 

 hibited greater interest in the Academy and in the work accom- 

 plished by it than any other member, he never sought personal 

 honor, but always considered the best interests of the Academy. 

 He was president of the institution for only three different terms 

 -from 1879 to 1881 and during 1897 and 1898. 



During the forty-one years of his connection with the Acad- 

 emy, he was really the most active, diligent and interested work- 

 er of all the members of the Academy. He did this quietly, and 

 unobtrusively, to large extent, working only for the upbuilding 

 and advancement of the interests of this association, which he 

 always regarded as the beginning of that which will work out in 

 the course of time, to a most important and valuable scientific 

 and educational institution for the northwest. Amid the manv 

 and continual discouragements in a newly building city, so many 

 tilings demand the attention and activities in lines more directly 

 connected with the obligations and necessities of practical affairs, 

 that it made the work of this Academy of secondary considera- 

 tion, and kept our citizens mostly so busily engaged in other 



