Prof. Alexander Winchell A Benefactor

The Washtenaw Pomológica] Society desires to exprese its grateful tributo to the membry of the late Dr. Aiexander Winchell a a citizen and as a foremost acieutific prornoter of all the interests whieh Cöpcern the resources and advautages the state of Michigan offers to agriculture and horticulture, and its appreciation of the services of Dr. Winchell to this society as officer of climatology for a number of yeara. W'o therefore extend our innermost sympathy to the family of our friend, hoping truly, that they will yet reap the harvest partly denied to this noble and profound worker, during bis life-time, by the authorities of the state of Michigan. We would therefore remind ourselves, the citizens of Michigan in general, and our state authorities in particular, that Alexauder Winchell is the foremost scientist who brought into notice the great climate facts of our state by whieh it was deraonstrated that, froin the peculiar climatic Of Michigan, this state is better adapted to the interest oí agriculture and horticidiure and also to the comfort and health of its citizens than the climate of any other north western state, which facts were published in his report "on the Grand Traverse región " in 18(5ti, and in his paper read the same year at the Buffalo meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science entitled "The Fruit Belt of Michigan and Michigan Condensed Popular Sketches on the Topography, Climate and Geology of the 8tate in '1873" by Aiexander Winchell, LL. D., Chancellor of Syracuse I'niversity, etc, etc. That these papers, with the isothermal charts, were reproduced in " Der Michigan Wegweiser"in Hamburg, Gertnany, and also in " Der Zetschrift, der Oesterreichischen Gesellschaft fuer Meteorologie in Vienne, Vol. VIII ; and that these works of the late Dr. Winchell, representing the greatest interests of this state, were published and re-published, at home and abroad, by newspaper and magazine managers, emigration agencies, learned societies, medical journals and horticultural associations, while the public authorities of Michigan have neither instigated, aided nor endorsed their publications ; but incredible as it may seem, have actually declined, with expression of derision, to publish them to their own citizens and the world. (See Michigan Legislative Proceedings, March and April 1871.) And that it is our candid opinión that, from the above stated facts, the state of Michigan is owing a sacred debt to the heirs and to the memory of this great benefactor and noble citizen of this great state, which he fondly called Michigan ! My Michigan !