BULLETIN OF THE 

 MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



(Vol. V. No. 3, May, 1917.) 



PREFATORY NOTE. 



The Minnesota Academy of Science invites the attention 

 of the scientific public to this study. "The Antiquity of Man in 

 America Compared with Europe," the last work of the late 

 Professor Newton Horace Winchell. This paper, based on a 

 lifetime's investigation and study of the allied fields of geology 

 and archaeology, represents his latest conclusions on the sub- 

 ject discussed. It was originally presented before the Iowa 

 Academy of Sciences, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, on April 24. 1914, 

 only one week before his life work was brought to a sudden 

 and untimely close. It was again read, before the Minnesota 

 Academy of Science,- at its 365th meeting on February 5, 1916, 

 by the author's friend, co-worker and successor. Dr. Warren 

 Upham, Archaeologist of the Minnesota Historical Society. 



Dr. (i. Frederick Wright, author of "The Ice Age in North 

 America and Its Bearings on the Antiquity of Man." in a let- 

 ter written to Mrs. N. H. Winchell in June. 1615. says: "Pro- 

 fessor Keith, of London, the most eminent comparative anato- 

 mist of Great Britain, was in Cleveland a few weeks ago lec- 

 turing on the Antiquity of Man. He made repeated references 

 to your husband's work, relying with complete confidence 

 Upon his conclusions. Indeed, the investigations of no other 

 American have so much weight with him." 



The publication of this highly important paper is of espe- 

 cially timely value, amidst the late new evidence and renewed 

 discussion of this subject, because it was the first public study, 

 since the epoch-making discovery of the ancient human re- 

 mains at Lansing, Kas., and in Nebraska, to marshal the evi- 

 dence for the paleolithic antiquity of man in America as well 

 as in Europe. This study is also a fitting culmination to 

 Professor Winchell's 45 years of scientific research and to the 

 "Memorial" number of the Academy's Bulletin (Vol. V, No. 2 ) . 

 published in July. 1614. 



T. B. WALKER. President. 



Frederick J. Wulling, Vice-President 



1 [ARLOW < Ai.k. Secretary. 



Minnesota Academy of Science. 



Minneapolis. May. 1917. 



