PROFESSOR CLARENCE L. HERRICK, M.S. 



To return to the chair of Geology and Natural History, after the 

 resignation of Professor Hicks the University had the good fortune to 

 secure the services of Professor Clarence L. Herrick, who had been 

 employed for the work temporarily during a short visit of Professor 

 Hicks to Europe for some special researches in the British Museum. 

 Professor Herrick remained at Denison until 1889, then accepted the 

 Professorship of Biology and Geology in the University of Cincinnati, 

 which he held for three years, and then came back to Denison as Pro- 

 fessor of Biology, remaining in active charge of , the chair until 1894, 

 when ill health compelled him to seek the climate of New Mexico. At 

 the close of the last school year, very much to the regret of all con- 

 cerned, he resigned his chair, in view of continued inability to endure 

 the climate of Ohio with safety. Since that date, he has been chosen 

 as President of the University of New Mexico and has entered upon 

 his work. 



Professor Herrick was born in Minneapolis, in 1858, and gradu- 

 ated from the University of Minnesota in 1880, where he remained as 

 Instructor in Botany and Zoology during the following year. He spent 

 the year 188 1-2 in study in Europe, and then accepted the position of 

 State Mammologist, in connection with the Geological Survey of Min- 

 nesota, in which work he remained until called to Denison. 



Beginning upon the foundations which we have described. Pro- 

 fessor Herrick gave an enormous impetus to all branches of scientific 

 study. In spite of any adequate financial provision for such work, hs 

 began immediately the publication of the *' Bulletin of the Laboratories 

 of Denison University," which has now reached its tenth volume and 

 has been of inestimable value to the University in stimulating original 

 research, by furnishing an avenue for the publication of results, in call- 

 ing the attention of scientists all over the educational world to the char- 

 acter of work done here, and in bringing to the Library by exchange a 

 mass of scientific literature which could have been secured in no other 



