74 ‘The American Geologist. February, 1892 
reavement, our hearts go out in sympathy to the stricken family whose 
sorrow we share. 
Signed: 
J. W. POWELL, G. K. GrLBenrr, 
CoA. Writer, ARNOLD HaGuE, 
Marcus Baker, S. F. Emmons, 
J.S. DILLER, W. H. Homes, 
CHas. D: Waxcort, C. WiLLARD Hays, 
Wo. H. Dann, IsrAEL C. RussELL, 
A. H. THompson, HENRY GANNETT, 
Watrer H. WEED, NeExson H. Darron, 
BAILEY WILLIS, GARRICK MALLERY, . 
W.J. McGeEr, Henry W. HENSHAW. 
The University Senate, Ann Arbor, adopted a memorial ex- 
pression of the loss sutfered by the University, from which the 
following is taken : 
* * * * 'Tosome of his books it was given to guide to a degree 
rarely accorded to books in these days, popular thought on the subjects 
on which they treat. They have had an influence which few scientific 
books have ever reached. They have not only made their author one of 
the most prominent figures in American science, but have made his name- 
a household word in thousands of families. 
But we feel the loss of Dr. Winchell not only because of his eminence 
in his chosen field of work, but also because of his personal qualities. 
He was a man of impressive appearance and dignified bearing, a court- 
eous colleague and a faithful friend, and those who knew him best found 
in him depths of gentleness and affection which are found but seldom. 
He was absolutely unswerving in his allegiance to what he believed to- 
be the truth. With true scientific instinct he firmly believed that all 
truth was one, and he devoted himself for many years to proving that 
science and revelation could not be in conflict. His faith in ascertained 
science was no less unwavering than his faith in religion, and in earlier 
days when such an assertion provoked hostile and even bitter criticism, 
he dared to assert and maintain that geology and revelation were in ac- 
cord. Unmoved by the storm which he had raised, firm in his convie- 
tions of scientific truth, and devout by nature, he then passed on to the 
study of the great problems of creation—problems to which his deeply 
religious feeling, his love of nature and his natural bent and grasp of 
mind all irresistibly turned him. With a reverent but master hand he 
endeavored to lift the veil of the past, to follow the steps of creation, 
ascertain its laws, and follow its evolution. These were the problems to 
which he delighted to devote himself. His other studies were only inci- 
dental to these, or to the duties of instruction. It was under the inspira- 
tion of these grand problems that his most influential books were written, 
and his most eloquent discourses delivered; and, as it happens, his iast pub- 
lic lecture, the last lecture he was destined to deliver, when the feeble- 
ness of mortal disease was overcome by the inspiration of his subject, a 
