THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
VOL. XXXVI, JULY, 1905. No. 1. 
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CLARENCE LUTHER HERRICK. 
By W. G. Tight. Albxjquerque, New Me.v. 
PORTRAIT, PLATE I. 
\\ hen a great and good man is taken from the midst 
of his life work and those whom he has served are called 
upon to realize their loss, there is ever a desire to perpetuate 
his memory and to preserve such knowledge concerning 
him as will be of further service to humanity. In preparing 
a fit memorial to Dr. Herrick the writer realizes his own 
inability to do justice to the man and his work. Perhaps 
no other outside of his immediate family was better ac- 
quainted with him than myself. Having lived with him in 
the home, .in the camp, in the school room and laboratory 
and being in almost constant correspondence with him for 
a long term of years when circumstances separated us, his 
death is a very deep personal loss. Dr. Herrick has many 
pupils scattered over the world who feel that they owe much 
to him and in whom he took a very deep interest and pride. 
( »f this large number there were two boys who were a little 
nearer to Dr. Herrick's heart than any of the others. Not 
because they were any better or brighter but because of 
the circumstances connected with their coming together. 
These two were Herbert L. Jones and myself. When Dr. 
Herrick went to Denison university in 1885 and started his 
career as a teacher he was a comparatively young man, be- 
ing only twenty-seven years old, but his characterise earn- 
estness and enthusiasm were so manifest that he attracted 
to himself out of a graduating class of thirteen these two 
boys and through his influence both remained at Denison 
for a year of post-graduate work. We were the first resident 
