WORDS OF APPRECIATION 



By Prof. O. W. Oestlund 

 University of Minnesota 



The words of appreciation to the memory of Professor New- 

 ton Horace Winchell that I have to add this evening will be 

 brief. Not that much might not be said as a result of nearly 

 seven years of almost daily contact with Professor Winchell in 

 connection with museum work and the survey under his direc- 

 tions, and upwards of twenty-five years in connection with the 

 Academy. 



It is with the deepest appreciation of his memory that I 

 count him as one of the great living teachers that I have had 

 the advantage and pleasure to come in contact with. Professor 

 Winchell was not widely known as a teacher at the University, 

 as he early in its history laid down this work in order to better 

 devote himself to the great problem of the geology of the state. 

 But a teacher is one who imparts knowledge, and a great teacher 

 is one who in addition imparts enthusiasm and desire for the 

 truth and for sciences. It is as such that I would count him as 

 one of the great, not for the many but for those young men 

 and others, who, like myself, came into more intimate and per- 

 sonal relations to him. As a true scientist he had the inspira- 

 tion of truth, and an untiring energy and enthusiasm to impart 

 and infuse the same to all who sought. The question was not 

 the social or scientific position of the inquirer : his influences 

 and connections ; his great learning and reputation, but all who 

 sought information were given the fullest consideration. The 

 great teacher is further characterized by his broadness of view, 

 by his sympathy with the many but closely related aspect> of 

 science. While geology received the first consideration, he also 

 showed the sympathetic interest with the biological sides of 

 the survey work, as far as circumstances and limited means at 

 hand would allow. Much of the pioneering work in the line of 

 botany, zoology, and anthropology, which has already been done 



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