Clarence Luther Herrick

Clarence Luther Herrick (June 21, 1858 – September 15, 1904) was a geologist and comparative neurologist who served as the second president of the University of New Mexico.

Early life Clarence Luther Herrick was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 21, 1858. He was the oldest of four sons born to Henry Nathan Herrick and Anna Strickler. His younger brother, Charles Judson Herrick, was also a neurologist. Clarence Herrick married Alice Keith, also of Minneapolis, on June 25, 1883. He also received his master's degree and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 1885 and 1898 respectively. He founded the Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University in 1885 and the Journal of Comparative Neurology (also known as the Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology in the early 1900s) in 1891. Due to his health, he resigned from the president position in June 1901. He went on to manage the Socorro Gold Mining Company's Cat Mountain mine from 1902 to 1903.

Selected works Mammals of Minnesota (1892) Ph.D. Dissertation - A Theory of Somatic Equilibrium with Illustrations of a Possible Mechanism Therefor in the Skin (1898)