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impressed me greatly and an hour or two was easily spent, with 

 him, even when our views were as widely different as possible on 

 the subject under consideration. I enjoyed during the last 

 winter his account of important field observations which he had 

 made lately in Kansas and in New Jersey, on archeology and 

 glacial geology. His study of human relics in relation to the 

 glacial stages was leading again to important field work and 

 study of the drift. 



For upwards of forty years Professor Winchell stood as the 

 pioneer, as the leader and director of scientific knowledge in 

 the state of Minnesota in its broadest and truest sense, — and this 

 to a far greater degree than we at present are able to compre- 

 hend. The Minnesota Academy, the University, and the State 

 may count itself fortunate in having had a man of this character 

 as the pilot during the trying times of pioneering days. 



