12 The American Geologist. July, 1906 
Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories the year following his 
.coming to Denison. * * * There are eighty-five articles 
written by many different authors, most of them Denison 
men, students or faculty members, and not a few of them 
those who have become original workers through the in- 
fluence and example of professor Herrick himself. 
Undoubtedly its success has been due to the fine start 
it made through the unremitting labors of professor Herrick 
as editor. Of the 26 articles which constitute the first four 
volumes issued under his editorship, no less than ten were 
from his own pen. And after ill health compelled him to 
seek another climate, and in spite of the fact that he had 
taken the editorship of the Journal of Comparative Neur- 
ology upon his hands we find him a frequent and valuable 
contributor. So late as June 1900 (in Vol. XL) we find an 
elaborate article of more than sixty pages, with a map and 
34 beautiful plates for which he was so well known. 
* * * In 1887 professor Herrick founded the Denison 
Scientific Association whose object, aim and history during 
seventeen years are well known to most of you. Very faith- 
fully has it carried out its aims as he expressed them in its 
constitution "To collect, record and disseminate information 
bearing on the sciences and to stimulate interest in local 
natural history and preserve specimens illustrating the 
same." I think very few of those who tried to help him 
start the Association expected that it would continue and 
develop as it has done. My own feeling concerning it is 
well expressed in a letter recently received from another 
of its charter members, professor J. E. Woodland of the 
Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute. He says: 
"I recall vividly the organization of the Denison Scien- 
tific Association and the enthusiasm with which professor 
Herrick directed the work and gathered the material for 
the programs. I have been associated with other Scientific 
Associations since then but have yet to find the genuine 
local interest and enthusiasm that characterized the one in 
.Granville." 
The fourth innovation due principally to professor 
Herrick, was the complete revision of the work in 
science in the course of study leading to the B. S. degree 
