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Ann Arbor, and the following year was transferred to that of 

 Geology, Zoology and Botany. From 1873 to 1879 he was first 

 Chancellor of the University at Syracuse, N. Y., and afterward 

 Professor of Geology and the Natural Sciences in the same Uni- 

 versity and in the Vanderbilt University of Tennessee. In 1879 

 he returned to Ann Arbor, taking again the chair he had left, 

 and there remained in active service until his decease. 



The subjects of Professor Winchell's publications were various ; 

 but his scientific investigations were confined to the departments 

 of Geology and Paleontology. In 1859 he was appointed Director 

 of the Geological Survey of the State of Michigan; and in 1860 

 he sent to the Legislature his "First Biennial Report," which 

 was published in 1861. The survey was soon after suspended in 

 consequence of the civil war. It was resumed under his charge 

 again in 1869, but two years after he resigned the position. He 

 however published, before this and later, occasional papers bear- 

 ing on the geology of the State and its mineral resources, besides 

 a geological map of Michigan, and also the results of some obser- 

 vations in other States. 



During the later years of Professor Winchell's life his geo- 

 logical work was largely among the Archaean rocks, and especially 

 those of Minnesota, in connection with the survey which was in 

 progress under his brother, Prof. N. H. Winchell, and his reports 

 appear in the annual volumes of the survey. These important 

 contributions to Archaean geology are collected in a volume of 

 more than 500 pages issued by him in 1889, entitled "Field 

 Studies of the Archaean Rocks." " A last word with the 

 Huronian " is the title of a paper read by him before the 

 American Geological Society on the 30th of last December. 

 "The Origin of the Earth's features" was another subject on 

 which he wrote at some length ; and in 1885 he presented to the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science a valuable 

 paper on " The sources of trend and crustal surplusage in mount- 

 ain structures," the substance of which is published in vol. xxx 

 (1885) of this Journal. In 1886 appeared a Geological Text Book 

 under the title of " Geological Studies," or Elements of Geology,. 

 which contains many of his personal observations. 



Professor N. H. Winchell's tribute to his brother in the 

 American Geologist for March, rightly says : " He was a man 

 of indomitable will, unremitting industry, with an insatiable love 

 for work in his profession ; of broad philanthropy, of penetrating 

 reason, of fearless pursuit of the truth ; at home in any realm of 

 nature's handiwork, — which he considered permeated with the 

 essence and will of its Creator; a geologist who embraced geology 

 in all its ramifications, ambitious to serve the world by con- 

 tributing to its fund of advanced knowledge." 



Henry Bowman Brady. — Dr. Brady, the eminent British 

 authority on the Foraminifera, died on January 10th. He was 

 born at Gateshead-on-Tyne, February, 1835. 



