Clarence Luther Herrick — Tight. 3 
apparently artificial or arbitrary, yet I think it may be said 
that the ideal scheme was in the end fairly achieved, though 
with great deviation in the details of the working." 
FIRST PERIOD. 1858-1884. 
The son of a Baptist clergyman, Dr. Herrick was born 
near Minneapolis, Minn., June 21, 1858. He grew up in a 
home far from neighbors as a solitary child with few play- 
mates and very early showed his bent for the study of 
nature. While still in the Minneapolis high school he col- 
lected extensively and left at graduation a case of over a 
hundred mounted bird skins and other specimens in the high 
school. It was during this period that his father got him an 
eight dollar microscope. With this crude instrument and 
without library facilities he worked over the fresh water 
fauna of the neighboring brooks and pools so thoroughly 
that before graduating from the university of Minnesota, in 
1880, he had published several articles of value on the fresh 
water Crustacea of Minnesota and four years after gradua- 
tion, with somewhat better facilities, published a report 
on the microcrustacea of Minnesota which is still standard. 
These years and those of his university course were filled 
with many bitter struggles, not the least of which was with 
poverty and the lack of materials for study. But notwith- 
standing these, he completed his course in three years, at 
the same time partly supporting himself by assisting on the 
Minnesota natural history survey. He had also showed 
so obvious a native gift with his pencil that upon his gradu- 
ation the president of the university said that he was uncer- 
tain whether to advise him to devote his life to science or 
art. But there was no uncertainty in the mind of the young 
man. Continuing his work with the geological and natural 
history survey of Minnesota after graduation, he published 
many papers in rapid succession on the fauna of the state 
and began an extensive report, the first volume of which 
was completed in 1885. This was a large quarto on the 
mammals of the state fully illustrated with many colored 
plates and pen drawings. It was accepted for publication, 
but for lack of funds in the survey, never saw the light. 
Years afterward, in 1892, a small octavo was published by 
