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chell, entitled "The Antiquity of Man in America 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. V. Brower, of aboriginal imple- 

 ments from Minnesota and other states west to the Rocky moun- 

 tains and south to Kansas, enabled Professor Winchell to take 

 up very fully the questions of man's antiquity and of his rela- 

 tion to the Ice Age. 



He 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. 



"Green be the turf above thee, 



Friend of my better days ! 



None knew thee but to love thee, 



Nor named thee but to praise." 



