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and their Differences," in June, 1911, which was immediately 

 published under his own supervision as pages 43-68 in the first 

 part of the fifth volume of the Bulletin. With the aid of 

 lantern slide illustrations in the original lecture and of 24 cuts 

 in the published form the veteran geologist of Minnesota showed 

 the nearer relationship of the newly discovered Cuyuna range to 

 the Vermillion range and thus warned against expecting to find 

 the Mesabi ores in the Cuyuna's Archean rocks. 



As the Academy approached its 40th birthday Professor 

 Winchell was most devotedly active in arranging the double pro- 

 g-ram of March 4, 1913, with its historical session in . President 

 Walker's Art Gallery in the afternoon and the six reviews of 

 the progress of science, held in the evening in our usual meeting 

 place in the director's room of the Public Library building. As 

 he insisted in assigning all the scientific reviews to others and 

 would say nothing of himself in his thorough and charming his- 

 torical paper on "The Founders of the Academy," the final 

 paper of our beloved last charter member is herewith printed 

 in this memorial. Of what his habitual modesty left out of his 

 own scientific life and works it has been the devoted aim of 

 this foregoing memorial to make some record and appreciation. 



But this bare enumeration and slight characterization of Pro- 

 fessor Winchell's long series of papers during his 41 years of 

 activity in the Academy by no means give a complete or true 

 picture of his unswerving faithfulness to science. In his many 

 discussions of papers by his colleagues in the subdivisions of 

 geology or in its related fields he unconsciously showed himself 

 to be their most eager hearer, alert learner, and wise counsellor. 

 As he would patiently and intently listen to abstract papers on 

 the structure of the universe, on ions, or kinds of reasoning, 

 to such unfamiliar things as brain ceils, over-tones, or ancient 

 glass and pottery, he would show most inspiringly how catholic, 

 generous and democratic is the true scientific nature. Xo trace of 

 professional narrowness or prejudice was his. A gentle and 

 chivalrous consideration of others, engrafted on his indomitable 

 energy for scientific work, wrought the rare union in Newton 

 Horace Winchell which made us love him deeply as a man and 

 honor him as an important contributor to the advance of human 

 knowledge. 



