CLARENCE LUTHER HERRTCK. 



We are called upon with the present issue of the Bulletin 

 to lament the sad and untimely death of its founder and editor- 

 in-chief at Socorro, New Mexico, on the loth of September. 

 For the past ten years, dating from his last connection with 

 Denison University, he has struggled heroically against tuber- 

 culosis of the lungs, together with other complications, which 

 at last cut him off in the midst of his labors and in the prime 

 of life. Untimely as his death must seem when regarded from the 

 point of view of his plans and hopes, yet Dr. Herrick had done 

 an amount of scientific research and philosophical writing, some 

 of which he was preparing for the press when he was taken, 

 which assures him an enduring name in the world of thought. 



The end came in accordance with his own most earnest wish 

 — he fell fighting for the truth. As one of those who were near 

 him when he passed away has said: "He was taken literally in 

 the harness. His laboratory and study tables showed the un- 

 finished tasks. His morning mail brought its usual load of duties. 

 He had contributed an article to the September number of the 

 American Geologist, and his mail, on the morning of his death, 

 brought a request from Dr. N. H. Winchell for some further 

 contributions to the October number. Thus in the midst of his 

 labors he passed into the larger sphere." 



Very early in his career he seems to have laid out, at least 

 in a general way, a plan of action, including for the first part of 

 his life miscellaneous research and study under direction in the 

 broad field of general natural history. Upon the basis of this 

 foundation, was to follow a period of intense specialization in a 

 circumscribed field of zoological work leading up to a mastery 



