114 The American Creologist. February, 1892 
geology. \t isa valuable pamphlet of 115 octavo pages, mostly 
in small type, and contains over 4,000 references to geological 
authorities. This work he regarded as a basis for a contemplated 
larger volume for scientific students and investigators, and he 
added to it, in his interleaved working copy, a multitude of addi- 
tional notes. 
1880. Tlis work on Preadamites was published in April, 1880. 
The book had been largely ordered in advance, and sold well from 
the start, so that though the first edition consisted of 1130 copies, 
the publishers began on a second edition within two weeks, and a 
third was called for by November. The fifth has now been issued 
some new matter having been added just before the author’s 
death. 
As a literary production this work was received with universal 
favor. As to the positions assumed it is noteworthy that most of 
the religious journals either occupied a non-committal attitude, 
saying time was required for due consideration, or else they dog- 
matically condemned the doctrines of the book. The Presbyteri- 
ans, Cumberland Presbyterians, * and Northern Methodists treated 
the discussion with most intelligence, and therefore with most 
tolerance. The Baptists and Episcopalians and Southern Metho- 
dists generally denounced the book and sometimes the author, 
without the slightest attention to the tenability of the positions 
assumed.7 On the contrary the secular and scientific journals 
received the work in a very favorable manner, Of the secular 
papers some criticised the author for giving any attention to the 
mode of reconciliation between Preadamites and the Bible; and 
one or two seemed disposed to ridicule for an alleged pro-clerical 
development. This criticism of course was offset by those ortho- 
dox reviewers who relegated the author to the limbo which holds 
‘‘Darwin, Spencer and Huxley,” and such like. 
The following are quotations from some of the characteristic 
Leviews: 
“There has been no work recently published-upon the subject which 
can compare with this in importance. Professor Winchell’s reputation for 
learning and for sincerity, his repute as a student of physical science, 
and his special attitude toward what is called the contlict between science 
and religion render anything which he writes upon such a theme im- 
portant; and the present work is the more likely te attract attention 
*See Review for Jan., 1881. 
+See Southern Methodist Quarterly Review for Jan., 1881. 
