Charles Judson Herrick

Charles Judson Herrick (6 October 1868 – 29 January 1960) was an American neurobiologist who made comparative studies across vertebrate neural systems.

He published several popular books including the Neurological Foundations of Animal Behavior (1924), The Brain of Rats and Men (1926), and The Thinking Machine (1928).

Along with his brother Clarence he spent his early life collecting plants and obtained a BS in science from the University of Cincinnati in 1891.

In 1896 he went to Columbia University and worked for a PhD, studying the cranial nerves of bony fish and returned to Denison in 1898 to become a professor.

His students (who included Charles Manning Child and George Ellett Coghill) believed that structure and function needed to be studied together as indeed mind and body.