> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 363](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066703) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11754-1) LSID 11754-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703323) QID Q1703323 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Winchell, Newton Horace (1839-1914), American botanist and geologist; studied at the University of Michigan 1858-1866; M.Sc. 1869; volunteer collector for the Michigan Geological Survey 1859-1860, collector id. 1869-1870; with the Ohio Geological Survey 1871-1872; state geologist of Minnesota 1872; with the University of Minnesota 1872-1900. **Abbreviated name**: *Winchell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Winchell*\] #### Herbarium and types \[No specimens collected in Michigan in [[Collection MICH|MICH]]\]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 506 (17 Dec 1839, d. 3 Mai 1914); BM 5: 2336, 8: 1443-1444; ME 1: 241; Merrill p. 536, 567, 715; PH 301, 567; Quenstedt p. 463; SIA see index; Tucker 1: 145, 749. #### Biofile - Anon., Science ser. 2. 39: 719. 1914 (d.). - Bain, H.F., Economic Geology 11(1): 51-62. 1916 (on W. and the American Geologist). - Clarke, J.M., Science ser. 2. 40: 127-130. 1914 (obit.). - Schuchert, Ch., Amer. J. Sci. 187: 566. 1914 (obit.). - Upham, W., Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 26: 27-46. 31 Mar 1915 (obit., portr., bibl.); Economic Geology 11: 63-72. 1916 (on W.'s work on glacial geology and archeology). - Voss, E., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 46-47, 63-64, 85. 1978. - Wilson, J.G. & J.F., eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 6: 560. 1889. #### Composite works - (1) *Catalogue of phanerogamous and acrogenous plants* found growing *in the lower peninsula of Michigan* and the islands at the head of Lake Huron, *in* Alexander Winchell, Rep. State Geol. Surv. Michigan 1861(3): \[243\]-330. - (2) *List of trees and shrubs, in* W. Ludlow, Rept. reconn. Black Hills Dakota 1875, 67-73. - (3) Main founder and editor of the *American Geologist* 1888-1905. #### Eponymy *Winchellia* Lesquereux (1893). *Note*: *Winchellina* H. Herzer (1893) honors Dr. Alex. Winchell, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. (see below). #### Note Winchell's brother, the geologist Alexander Winchell (1824-1891) published a *Catalogue of plants found growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Amenia seminary*, Rep. New York State Cabinet nat. Hist. 1851: 256-279. – For further information on Alexander Winchell's botanical activities (he was professor of geology, zoology and botany at Ann Arbor (Univ. Michigan) 1854-1873) see K.C. Jones, Michigan Academ. 9: 268, 272. 1977, and E.G. Voss, Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 34, 35, 46, 58, 62, 69, 87. 1978. A small collection of plants collected by A. Winchell in Alabama is at US. For further information see ME 1: 241, 3: 679, and J.G. Wilson & J. Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 6: 560. 1889. ### Publications ##### n.17.927. Notes on the big woods **Title** *Notes on the big woods*... Extracted from the Annual Report of the \[Minnesota\] State Horticultural Society for 1875. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1875, p. \[1\]-4. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Minnesota State Hort. Soc. 1875: 47-50.