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C. L. Herrick 
omy. The suceeding five years were devoted chiefly to geology, 
and the later years of his life to neurology, comparative psy- 
chology and philosophy. At the beginning of the latter period 
he founded in 1891 the Journal of Comparative Neurology and 
Psychology, which he continued to edit until his death. His 
interest in philosophical questions was perennially active, as 
shown by the note-books which he made as a college student, 
his correspondence throughout life, and his frequent contribu- 
tions to the psychological and philosophical serials. 
Professor Herrick, though a great admirer of Lotze, whose 
lectures on psychology he translated and privately printed while 
still a young man for the use of his classes (with, significantly, j| 
an appended chapter on the structure of the brain) was a disciple ! 
of no school. The systematist, he remarks in the introduction | 
to one of his unpublished works, may be horrified to observe that ! 
questions of psychology and of neurology jostle problems of ' 
ontology and ^^Erkenntnistheorie. The hysterical individual, ; 
on the other hand, who finds the word system insupportable, | 
will doubtless do well to stop here and may as well detain his | 
fellow who sees in an unclassified fact a maverick escaped from the | 
herd to be roped, rounded up and branded Hegelian, Herbar- | 
tian, etc., as soon as possible. | 
The pages which follow were assembled shortly after Professor ! 
Herrick’s death in 1904 from a large collection of miscellaneous i 
papers. The greater part of this compilation was done by Prof. ! 
H. Heath Bawden, an arduous labor, very skillfully and sympa- 
thetically performed as a tribute from a pupil to the memory 
of his first master. The entire manuscript has been critically 
read by Dr. George Fitch McKibben whose association with I 
Professor Herrick began when they were students in Germany. | 
The attempt has been made to correlate the most distinctive j 
of the philosophical and psychological teachings of Professor Her- | 
rick by bringing together the important ideas scattered through- r 
out his published writings and contained in hitherto inaccessible 
papers and unpublished manuscripts which it has been our privi- | 
lege to consult. The greater part of what here appears is pub- 
lished for the first time, references being made to his published | 
writings only so far as has been necessary to give the proper | 
® Published at Minneapolis. Pp. x + 150, 2 plates, 1888. 
