336 Obituary — Neivton Horace Winchell. 



solution of the difficult problems presented in tliese various fields, 

 characterizing nearly as many petrographical provinces, has left 

 a record of noteworthy achievement to our science. His writings 

 are numerous and important. Fearless in all his endeavours to 

 ascertain the truth, he published the same, as it presented itself 

 to him, in an equally fearless fashion. Of a vigorous temperament 

 and endowed with unbounded activity and intellectual strength. 

 Dr. Barlow found a wide field for his geological investigations, and 

 his reports breathe that spirit of originality, of thought, and of 

 personal care and attention, of minute petrographical and micro- 

 scopical details, which were necessary in the study of the many 

 iireas of ore-deposits entrusted to him by the various directors of the 

 Geological Survey under whom he wrought for the past twenty-five 

 years. It was under Dr. Selwyn and Dr. Dawson, as well as under 

 Dr. Low, that he was enabled to do his best work. In mining centres 

 he was the welcome geologist and friend to be consulted, and his 

 information both in the field and in the office was the final word that 

 gave satisfaction to the various inquiries made covering the areas 

 above mentioned. His loss is great, and his work was thoroughly 

 good during the brief half-century of his existence. At "the March 

 (1914) meeting of the Canadian Mining Institute held in Montreal 

 lie was the retiring President, and he did much for the Institute and 

 the mining fraternity to bring about close relations between the 

 thoroughgoing geologist and the practical mining engineer, a relation 

 of the greatest value in any community where the mineral resources 

 of a country are of such vast import as in Canada, realizing as they 

 do now an annual value of some 135,000,000 dollars. During the 

 Twelfth International Congress of Geology held in Canada last year 

 Barlow was a host in himself. In him Canada has lost a diligent and 

 successful as well as honest and fearless geologist, whose convictions 

 went before his personal advantages or aggrandisement in an unselfish 

 aim to bring his chosen science and its value to the State to the fore- 

 front in an unblemished career. 



H. M. Ami. 

 Seafoed, Sussex. 



NEWTON HORACE WINCHELL. 

 Born December 17, 1839. Died May 2, 1914. 



Pkofessor IN'ewxon Horace Winchell died on Saturday, May 2, in 

 a hospital at Minneapolis (the city in which he lived). He was in 

 active health and work up to a few days before his death (which 

 resulted from a surgical operation). Professor AVinchell was born in 

 N.E. New York on December 17, 1839, and died in his 75th year. 

 His gi'eat work was as State Geologist of Minnesota, for twenty-eight 

 vears (1872-1900). He was Pounder and Editor of the A^nerican 

 Geologist, which was published for eighteen years in Minneapolis 

 (1888-1905). Since 1906 Professor Winchell was in charge of the 

 Department of Archaeology of the Minnesota Historical Society. 



Minnesota Historical Society. Warren Upham, 



May 18, 1914. Secretary and Librarian. 



