14 The American Geologist. July, 1905 
lege' I replied 'of which very likely you never heard, Deni- 
son.' 
' 'O yes,' was the prompt reply, 'I know Denison ; the 
Herricks have made Denison famous.' " This incident gives 
evidence of the high regard in which the scientific work be- 
gun at Denison by professor C. L. Herrick is held among 
workers elsewhere in similar lines. 
From an article in the same Bulletin by H. Heath Baw- 
den we quote : Of professor Herrick's contributions to 
philosophy a word should be said. That his interest was a 
deep and abiding one is abundantly evident from a glance 
at his writings which include many articles and discussions 
dating from the publication in 1882 of his translation of 
Lotze's lectures on psychology to the series of articles on 
"Dynamic Realism" which he had begun to publish in the 
Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 
at the time of his death. He made frequent short contribu- 
tions to the Psychological Review, besides publishing vari- 
ous other articles of a. psychological and philosophical char- 
acter in his own journal. His interest in problems of ethics 
and religion is evidenced by diverse articles in certain of the 
religious periodicals as well as much unpublished manu- 
script. 
Of his -netaphysical writings it should be said that they 
were always inspired by his scientific researches. He never 
was satisfi d with the easy philosophy of the "anti-meta- 
physical" standpoint of many fellow scientists. Psycho- 
physical parallelism he regarded as "the Great Bad." The 
aim of his life was to throw light upon just such so-called in- 
soluble problems as the relation of consciousness to the 
train. 
"Ignorabimus" is a word which never fell from his lips. 
The unity of the material and the mental is a truth upon 
which he came to lay increasing stress in his later years. 
Starting from a Lotzean spiritualistic idealism he never lost 
Tiold of the monism which characterizes that philosophical 
world-view, though in many respects he worked beyond 
it, his scientific studies serving to correct any tendency to 
an exclusive emphasis upon the mental. This is seen in 
the title under which his latest writings appear — "Dynamic 
