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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 Psycho- 

 logical Reviciv." 



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 Scien- 

 tific Methods, at the time of his death. He made frequent short 

 contributions to the I'sychological Reviezv, besides publishing 

 various articles of a psychological and philosophical character in 

 the columns of his own Journal. Plis 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 religious periodicals as well as by much unpublished MS.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 satis- 

 fied with the easy philosophy of the "anti-metaphysical" stand- 

 point 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 



