CLARENCE LUTHER HERRICK. 



We are called upon with the present issue of the Journal 

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

 in-chief at Socorro, New Mexico, on the 15th 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 unfinished 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 num- 

 ber. 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 



