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the University of California/ It remains here to say something 

 of Dr. Herrick first, as an investigator and thinker, and sec- 

 ondly, as a teacher and as a man. 



In estimating the character of his work it is difficult to say 

 whether he was primarily an investigator or a philosopher. .And 

 this is to his great credit for he comhined in a remarkable de- 

 gree the qualifications of an expert in both of these lines. He 

 had at once acute perceptions, and keen insight for scientific de- 

 tails, and a broad philosophic horizon and perspective which 

 peculiarly fitted him for the work he undertook of throwing 

 light upon the nature of consciousness from the neurological 

 side. A glance at the appended bibliography will show that a 

 philo.sophic scope as well as a scientific specialization character- 

 ized all his work. 



His work in every line was exteremely suggestive, and it 

 should be added, seldom exhaustive, though certain of his neu- 

 rological and geological papers reveal his power of accurate 

 and detailed research. But his thought ever was moving for- 

 ward, and he was impatient of the routine details which would 

 put any check upon his richly developing insight. 



His scientific labors fall in three states — Minnesota, Ohio, 

 and New Mexico. Of his work in geology during the first and 

 second periods of his life we have already spoken. His neuro- 

 logical work was done mostly during the second and third periods, 

 while connected with the University of Cincinnati and with Deni- 

 son University. 



The first contribution in neurology was the elementary chap- 

 ter on the nervous system appended to the translation of Lotze's 

 Outlines of Psychology, published in Minneapolis, in 1885. This 

 is significant not so much for its content (though here the dyna- 

 mic point of view is dominant) as for its context. The juxta- 

 position, in a manual designed for an elementary text-book, of 

 Lotze's lectures and original lectures on the mechanism of the 

 brain was a decided novelty in those days. 



^ He took his mining degree in 1907 and now holds a post in the same 

 Jniversity. 



