- Alewander Winchell. 73 
find nothing of it in that volume. The suggestion seems to be a 
fruitful one, and may be established or refuted by some compe- 
tent physicist. | 
The immediate cause of death was suffocation, superinduced 
by dropsical secretions which permeated his whole system, and 
finally filled his lungs. The primary pathologic cause was aortic 
stenosis, by which the aortic orifice was so reduced that the neces- 
sary amount of blood could not pass it, deranging the whole cir- 
culation. The cause next more remote was a severe attack of 
‘inflammatory rheumatism” in the spring of 1865, and the origi- 
nal cause, as traced back by himself, at the time, was long ex- 
posure, in February, to cold in working inthe University museum 
at Ann Arbor without fire. 
His old-time college friend, Rev. Wm. 8. Studley, D. D., of 
Evanston, Ill., conducted the funeral, and delivered an appro- 
priate and eloquent address.* The burial was in Forest Hill 
cemetery, Ann Arbor, where four of his children had preceded him. 
His death brought forth numerous expressions of sorrow and 
testimonials of esteem, some of which were dispatched from 
points as remote as San Francisco and Boston, and from several 
in Europe. One came from Central America, bearing a sprig of 
edelweiss from the Swiss Alps. The geologists of the United 
States Geological Survey gave expression of their sentiment and 
sympathy, in the following words: 
WasHINGTON, D. C., February 20, 1891. 
* *£ * * By his unflagging devotion to science and his equally 
constant and successful efforts to promote and extend beneficent knowl- 
edge among men, Professor Winchell justly won the respect and ad- 
miration of his fellow-students throughout the world; and by his per- 
sonal uprightuess, the honorable motives manifested in his daily life, and 
his unfailing courtesy, he inspired the esteem and friendship of his pro- 
fessional associates in those scientific gatherings and institutions in 
which he always took so active and worthy a part. 
As students of geology we deplore the death of one of the foremost 
geologists of the century; as personal friends we mourn the loss of one 
of the most highly esteemed in our circle; and in this, our common be- 
*This address with several others delivered at a memorial service at 
the Methodist church, May.10, 1891, has been published in pamphlet 
form. The “University memorial,” embracing the address of Prof. M. 
W. Harrington, May 3, has also been put into pamphlet. The memorial 
address delivered before the Geological Society of America, in August, 
1891, by his brother, Prof. N. H. Winchell, is included in Vol. IIT, of 
the Society’s bulletin, together with resolutions adopted by the Society. 
