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tention in each case at rfie very outset. As I look back over 

 the years, I have to confess that his judgment was better than 

 mine. Note briefly hasN his larger faith has been vindicated. 



He started the first volume of the Bulletin of the Scientific 

 Laboratories the year following his coming to Denison. Whether 

 looked at from the point of view of the probability of getting 

 suitable financial support, of the small number and imperfect 

 training of the students and other local workers who might be 

 expected to furnish articles for it, or whether considered with 

 reference to the likelihood of its receiving recognition abroad 

 in the shape of exchanges with the really worthy scientific periodi- 

 cals of this and foreign countries — viewed from any of these 

 standpoints the enterprise seemed to many a hazardous one. But 

 how has it turned out? The trustees of the University voted a 

 sum of money to help publish the first volume and have continued 

 to do the same year after year for now nearly twenty years. 

 Sometimes when they did not see how they could do so, with 

 the many pressing financial needs, some of their number have 

 put their hands into their own pockets and extracted therefrom 

 what was necessary to prevent any interruption or delay in the 

 appearance of a publication, which they have come to recognize 

 as of great value to the University. With regard to the ques- 

 tion of finding contributors, examination of its index shows that 

 twelve volumes have been issued, aggregating nearly 2,000 pages 

 of valuable scientific material. In the first ten volumes (complete 

 indices of the last two are not just now at my disposal), I find 

 that there are 85 articles written by many different authors, most 

 of them Denison men, students or faculty members, and not a 

 few of them those who have become original workers mainly 

 throug'h the influence and example of Professor Herrick him- 

 self. 



Undoubtedly its success has been mainly due to the fine start 

 it made through the unremitting labors of Professor Herrick 

 as editor. Of the 26 articles, which constitute the first four 

 volumes issued under his editorship, no less than ten were from 

 his own pen. And after ill health compelled him to seek another 



