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tem examination, was intensified, and caused a temporary dis- 
ablement. It was manifested in continued headache, and Dr. 
Dunster, of the medical faculty, was called for advice. He ex- 
pressed the opinion that mental effort too unremitted had pro- 
duced a chronic congestion of the capillaries at the base of the 
brain. Whether the diagnosis as to cause was correct or not, as 
to effect there can now be no question, since the blood vessels at the 
base of the brain, as well as in other parts of the body, and es- 
pecially the aorta, were ‘‘congested”’ and contracted by ossification, 
Dr. Cocker having deceased in April, the University Senate re- 
quested Prof. Winchell to deliver a memorial discourse on the 
Sunday of Commencement week. This was delivered on June 
24, and it was published in pamphlet form by the University. 
Dr. Cocker had been intimate with Dr. Winchell for many years. 
Their community of study had affiliated them, and a touching 
personal regard was felt mutually. Nothing could excel the 
reverent, tender and beautiful tribute which he now paid to the 
life and personal character and the work of his lost colleague. 
He wrote tender and appreciative memorials of several of the 
University faculty when deceased, but into none of them did he 
throw the ardor of his love and the polish of rhetorical expres- 
sion and the searching analysis of character that marks this paper. 
It will probably long remain the model, par excellence, of obitu- 
ary memorials of deceased professors at Ann Arbor. 
His ‘‘World Life, or Comparative Geology” was issued in 
November, 1883. Its scope is set forth modestly in the opening 
passage from the preface as ‘‘a thoughtful view of the processes 
of world formation, world growth and world decadence.’ |The 
subjects discussed are the most elevating and sublime within the 
range of human knowledge. It was well received by the public, 
as well as by scientific critics. 
One of the ablest works of the day. In involves conceptions whose 
tremendous scope takes one’s breath—before whose awful magnitude 
even imagination hesitates appalled; but among these vast themes Dr. 
Winchell moves with the assured step of a familiar.—Chicago Times. 
This volume is Dr. Winchell’s masterpiece. It furnishes us a mag- 
nificent survey of universal structural cosmogony, such as has not hith- 
erto appeared.— VWethodist Quarterly Review, Jan., 1884. 
There is something very fascinating in the book, so grand and simple 
are its generalizations, so vivid is its panorama of the mighty courses of 
creation, so like a romance of the heavens does it read, with its orderly 
