188 The American Naturalist, [February, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. Clarence M. Weed, editor of the entomological department 
of the AMERICAN NATURALIST, and present entomologist to the Ohio 
Experiment Station, has been elected professor of zoology and ento- 
mology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts, located at Hanover, N. H., in connection with Dartmouth Col- 
lege. He will move to Hanover during the coming spring. 
Alexander Winchell, Professor of Geology and Paleontology in 
Ann Arbor University, Michigan, died on February 20th at Ann 
Arbor. Professor Winchell was one of the best-known geologists, and 
was a distinguished author of works of original research, as well as 
educational books. He was long State Geologist of Michigan, and 
during his incumbency he published some important monographs of 
the Paleozoic geology and paleontology of his State. He subsequently 
assumed the Professorship of Geology in Vanderbilt College, Tennes- 
see, from which school he was retired because of his belief in the 
doctrine of organic evolution. He was afterwards Chancellor of the 
University at Syracuse, New York, from which place he returned to 
n Arbor. At the time of his death he was President of the Geologi- 
cal Society of America. His latest work has been in the Archean and 
Huronian regions about Lake Superior. 
Professor Winchell produced a number of works of a popular char- 
acter, which have greatly stimulated the taste for geological science in 
this and other English-speaking countries. He was a pleasant lecturer, 
who instructed his classes, and aroused their interest in his favorite 
science. His treatment of the subject was within the reach of popular 
audiences, as it was not his specialty to deal with the finest subtleties of 
thought. His method was rather bold and comprehensive. 
„ Professor Winchell was a handsome man of strong physical build, 
and of a quiet and somewhat phlegmatic temperament. He was honest 
and amiable, and personally attractive to many people. He has left 
many friends. He was born in the State of New York in 1824. 
Professor Felipe Poey, the most famous naturalist yet produced 
in any Spanish country, died at Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28th, 1891, in the 
ninety-second year of his age. Poey was born in Havana, of French- 
Spanish parentage, in the year 1799. He was educated for the pro- 
fession of law in the University of Havana, but his tastes for the nat- 
