"He first resided, with his family, in Albuquerque, and while gaining strength, began to study the local fauna and flora. Perhaps it may be allowable to give an incident from this period of his life, for it is most typical of him. "While recovering strength he was accustomed to lie upon a couch in the open air. His microscope was close at hand, and he began at once the study of our fresh water crustaceans. For a few minutes he would study his creature under the microscope, make his exquisite drawings, write out his description, when, being seized with a coughing spell, he would be forced to his couch completely exhausted, to remain there perhaps half an hour before he could resume his study. "This incident illustrates two characteristics. It illustrates first, his unremitting labors. Only when necessity compelled did he cease his labor. True, he had his recreations, but these were often of such a character as to be downright labor for most The incident also illustrates, secondly, his deep thirst for knowledge. Only he who has drunk at the fountain of inspiration could labor so incessantly under conditions so unfavorable. men. "After some months spent in Albuquerque, Professor Herrick and his family moved to Socorro. There he became interested in geological studies, and also collected a considerable herbarium of native plants. He contributed occasional articles to the Journal of Comparative Neurology. In the spring of 1897 he, in company with his son Harry and Dr. MALTBY, made an exploring trip to the Tres Marias Islands, off the western coast of Mexico, where a large natural history collection was made. "Upon his return from Mexico, Professor HERRICK was elected President of the University of New Mexico, and began his new labors in 1897. His wide experience, having been connected with three universities, viz., Minnesota, Cincinnati and Denison, his several trips to Germany, where he met and worked with the leaders in the biological sciences, his national reputation in fields of zoology, geology, neurology, psychology and philosophy, gave him an ideal preparation as a college president. No wonder, then, that he drew to him immediately a number of advanced students who were inspired by his genius. and broad knowledge, and who fairly worshiped him. "In passing, it may be mentioned that under him the policy of the University was completely reversed. From a literary academy, it became a scientific school; from a preparatory school it developed into a college with a post-graduate department. In three short years the institution was placed where it belonged-at the head of the school system of New Mexico. "Upon entering his new duties, Dr. HERRICK commenced the biological and geological survey of the territory. "Two volumes of original investigations in these lines speak for themselves. In addition, contributions were made to some of the leading journals of America, especially to the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the American Geologist and the Psychological Review." Of Professor HERRICK'S contributions to philosophy a word should be said. That his interest was a deep and abiding one is abundantly evident from a glance at his writings which include many articles and discussions dating from the publication in 1882 of his translation of LOTZE's lectures on psychology to the series of articles on "Dynamic Realism" which he had begun to publish in the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, at the time of his death. He made frequent short contributions to the Psychological Review, besides publishing various articles of a psychological and philosophical character in the columns of his own Journal. His interest in problems of ethics and religion is evidenced by divers articles in certain of the religious periodicals as well as by much unpublished MS. Of his metaphysical writings it should be said that they were always inspired by his scientific researches. He never was satisfied with the easy philosophy of the "anti-metaphysical" standpoint of many fellow scientists. Psycho-physical parallelism he regarded as "the Great Bad." The aim of his life was to throw light upon just such so-called insoluble problems as the relation of consciousness to the brain. "Ignorabimus" is a word which never fell from his lips. The unity of the material and the mental is a truth upon which he came to lay increasing stress in his later years. Starting from a Lotzean spiritualistic idealism he never lost hold of the monism which characterizes that philosophic world-view, though in many respects he worked beyond it, his scientific studies serving to correct any tendency to an exclusive emphasis upon the mental. This is seen in the title under which his latest writings appear -"Dynamic realism"-in which many will find hints of a coming philosophic movement which is to reinterpret the fixed ontological categories of a past metaphysics in more dynamic and organic terms. Of his contributions to the theory as to the nature of consciousness (equilibrium theory of consciousness), the physiological basis of the emotions, theory of pleasure-pain (summationirradiation theory of pleasure-pain), his discussion of the reflex arc or organic circuit under the terms of his own coining ("aesthesodic" and "kinesodic"), and in general his interpretation of experience in dynamic and energic terms, we may not here speak in detail. But the attention of the readers of this Journal should be called to this side of his work as it is embodied in his various published writings and especially in certain writings which are yet to appear. In the memory of his pupils Professor HERRICK was greatest as a teacher. This statement can only be appreciated by those who knew him personally and were in his classes. There was no display or oratory. He was not what would be called a gifted public speaker, though he was often called upon for such services. It was in the class-room or about the seminar table or in general conversation that the inexhaustible fertility of his thought and fine suggestiveness of his language appeared. In his lectures one always knew that he was getting the best, the latest, the deepest results of his scientific research and philosophic reflection. Never was any work slighted in which his students were involved. Other things might be sacrificed-time, money, convenience, even health itself, but never the student. The result was that his teaching was not confined to the class room or laboratory. There never was an occasion upon which he was not ready to suggest, advise, assist the groping mind in its search for the truth. He He was extraordinarily versatile in the class-room. would lecture with a piece of chalk in each hand, sketching at the same time ambidextrously upon the blackboard the figure he was describing. Never did the lecture degenerate into a mere description of the figure. The figure he was describing was the figure in his mind, the figure that he was thereby suggesting in the student's mind. Such description and all the other instrumentalities of the class-room and laboratory were always kept in their proper place and proportion as means to the end of knowledge and insight. His artistic sense. His artistic sense was too fine to allow them ever to degenerate into mere ends in themselves; the technique of his teaching was in itself a work of art, the more that it was unconscious on his part. His courses in neurology, embryology, and histology were primarily courses in thinking. This is no doubt the reason why so many of his students look back upon his teaching as the period of their intellectual awakening. One of his colleagues at Denison University says of him: "All who knew Professor HERRICK loved him. Different friends had different reasons for loving him, but all agreed in loving. Christian people loved him because he was a loyal Christian man. Intellectual people loved and admired him because of his brilliant and keen intellect; and men in general loved him because they saw in him a true and noble man loving the truth and living it out in his daily life." "He did his work with a He contributed to science As has been said of another: quietness which concealed its power. our best example of the scientific temper. thinker. He was a successful teacher. spirer, and leader of youth." He was a profound He was a lover, in. H. HEATH BAWDEN. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF C. L. HERRICK. 1877. The Trenton Limestone at Minneapolis. Amer. Nat., 11, 247-248. Ornithogical Notes. Fifth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., for 1876, 230-237 A New Cyclops. Fifth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., for 1876, 238-239, 2 figs. 1879. Microscopic Entomostraca. Seventh Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., 81-164, 21 pl. Fresh Water Entomostraca. Amer. Nat., 13, 620-624, 4 pl. 1882. Papers on the Crustacea of the Fresh Waters of Minnesota. I. Cyclopidae of Minnesota. II. Notes on Some Minnesota Cladocera. III. On Notadromas and and Cambaras. Tenth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., for 1881, 219-254, 11 pl. Habits of Fresh Water Crustacea. Amer. Nat., 16, 813-816. A New Genus and Species of the Crustacean Family of Lyncodaphnidae. Amer. Nat., 16, 1006-1007. 1883. Types of Animal Life, Selected for Laboratory Use in Inland Districts. Part I. Arthropoda. Minneapolis, 33 pp., 7 pl. Heterogenetic Development in Diaptomus. Amer. Nat., 17, 381-389. A Blind Copepod of the Family Harpacticidae. Amer. Nat., 17, 206. 1884. [Abstract of] Minnesota Laws Relating to Mines and Mining. Eleventh Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., for 1882, 195-212. A Final Report on the Crustacea of Minnesota Included in the Orders Cladocera and Copepoda. Together with a Synopsis of the described Species in North America and Keys to the known Species of the more Important Genera. Twelfth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., for 1883, Part V, 1-192, 30 pl. 1885. Notes on the Mammals of Big Stone Lake and Vicinity. Thirteenth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn.,for 1884, 178-186. 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