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the duties of which he never assumed. Ill health compelled 
him to seek the more favorable climate of New Mexico, 
where after a short service as instructor in the school of 
mines at Socorro, he was elected president of the university 
of New Mexico, at Albuquerque. Here his zeal and energy 
so inspired his associates that the university entered upon 
an era of activity unusual in so young an institution. His 
health, however, continuing to fail, Dr. Herrick was forced 
to resign the responsibilities of the presidency and seek the 
more active outdoor work of a practical geologist and irri- 
gation engineer. So employed and continuing to contribute 
to the scientific journals, he labored industriously until his 
death. His last paper appears in the current number of the 
American Geologist. 
"Few alumni of the university of Minnesota have at- 
tained higher rank among the American scientists. Three 
commonwealths feel the influence of his versatile brain; 
three universities honor his memory. For years he labored 
under the discouragements of disease, but he held out gal- 
lantly in the prosecution of his chosen work. All his in- 
tellectual life was given to the abstruse problems of science, 
and his achievements should place him among the savants 
of the opening century." 
In Ohio "The Granville Times" and "The Denisonian" 
the weekly college paper, both published portraits and ex- 
tended articles concerning him and his life work. 
The Denison Scientific Association held a special mem- 
orial service at which Prof. G. F. McKibben of Denison, 
Prof. A. D. Cole of Ohio state university and Prof. Aug. 
F. Foerste of Dayton, Ohio, made the principal addresses. 
Prof. Cole said in part in his address on "C* L. Her- 
rick as a Maker of Scientific Men," published in a special 
memorial volume of the Bulletin of the Scientific Labora- 
tories of Denison university. 
"I desire to emphasize especially his rare power of in- 
fluencing young men — and that too without seeming to make 
any effort to do so — to adopt his own point of view of 
life and devote themselves, wholly or in part, to the quest 
of truth which was to him the great thing in life. This 
seems to me to be the most striking and characteristic 
