-■^'■'^- II Clarence Luther Merrick. 2'i 



deal of grovmd with surprising fidelity to the facts of his materiaL. 

 But the method results in a positive hardship to his readers, 

 since the matter was not fully digested and correlated before 

 publication. While, therefore, this matter is of great value, it 

 is hard to read and will not be used fully save by a few specialists 

 until it is worked over and correlated within itself and with other 

 more recent work. It is hoped that this may be done soon. The 

 facts as stated must necessarily serve as the basis for any future 

 work on the types which he studied. 



After his departure for New Mexico a few brief neurological 

 articles were published, but only fragments remaining from his 

 earlier work or critical articles. This period was devoted chiefly 

 to geology and other studies which could be pursued out-of-doors, 

 and more recently to philosophical writing. 



In 1892 he contributed a short paper to the Leuckart 

 Festschrift. In 1893 he wrote four articles for the supplement 

 to Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. He 

 also wrote a few articles for the second edition of the Handbook, 

 beginning in 1900. In conjunction with C. Judson Herrick, he 

 prepared the neurological articles for the Baldwin Dictionary 

 of Philosophy and Psychology, some of these being encyclopedic 

 articles of considerable length. 



The best years of his life were devoted to his neurological 

 work and it is all of a high order of merit, yet one feels that in 

 very little of it did he do hrmself justice. His impetuous tem- 

 perament and phenomenal ability to turn off research rapidly is 

 partly responsible for this ; but its unsatisfactory character is 

 largely due to the fact that it was cut off prematurely. He never 

 had the patience to polish his work as some like to see it done, 

 and it would have been much more accessible if he had put even 

 the unfinished reports of progress into more systematic fonn. 

 Yet, even as it is, the aggregate is a mt)numental work to stand 

 as the out-put of only about half a decade of productive work. 



Of his work in New Mexico one who had first-hand knowl- 

 edge writes as follows : 



"He first resided, with his family, in Albuquerque, and while 



