Excerpt from Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University, 1905-1907, Vol. 13

He started the firs-t volume of the Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories the year following his coming to Denison. Whether looked at from the point of View of the probability of getting suitable financial support, of the small number and imperfect training of the students and other local workers who might be expected to furnish articles for it, or whether considered with reference to the likelihood of its receiving recognition abroad in the shape of exchanges with the really worthy scientific periodi cals of this and foreign countries - viewed from any of these standpoints the enterprise seemed to many a hazardous one. But how has it turned out? The trustees of the University voted a sum of money to help publish the first volume and have continued to do the same year after year for now nearly twenty years. Sometimes when they did not see how they could do so, with the many pressing financial needs, some of their number have put their hands into their own pockets and extracted therefrom what was necessary to prevent any interruption or delay in the appearance of a publication, which they have come to recognize as of great value to the University. With regard to the ques tion of finding contributors, examination of its index shows that twelve volumes have been issued, aggregating nearly pages of valuable scientific material. In the first ten volumes (complete indices of the last two are not just now at my disposal), I find that there are 85 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 mainly through the influence and example of Professor Herrick him self.

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