THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



White House. There was a long line of distinguished medical 

 men from the Central and South American republics, and they 

 were introduced to the President in turn by Dr. Walter Wyman, 

 then Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service. The men in line could hear what the President said to 

 each delegate as he was introduced. They were impressed not 

 only by the solemnity of the occasion, but also by the extraor- 

 dinary knowledge that the President showed concerning each 

 individual presented, and by the happy manner in which he 

 greeted him. For example, when Dr. Eduardo Liceaga, the 

 President of the Superior Board of Health of Mexico, was intro- 

 duced, the President said, "Dr. Liceaga, it affords me the most 

 profound pleasure to greet you, sir, not only as the eminent 

 sanitarian and administrator that you are, but as the representa- 

 tive of our nearest sister republic, for which we have the greatest 

 admiration and affection." He said things like this to each man 

 as he advanced, and the delegates were gready impressed and 

 formed in a group to listen. However, near the end of the line 

 was Dr. A. H. Doty of New York, who had been Health 

 Officer of that port when the President was Police Commissioner 

 of New York City. As he reached the President, Dr. Wyman 

 said, "Mr. President, it is not necessary to introduce this gentle- 

 man." Whereupon the President slapped Doty on the back and 

 said, "Old man, how are you.?" This was all right as far as Doty 

 was concerned, but it altered the impression that the President 

 had been making upon the Latin American delegates. 



By the end of his administration, Roosevelt had made definite 

 plans to start immediately on his African trip, and on the day 

 before the inauguration of President Taft an invitation came to 

 the bureau chiefs to call and say good-by. I went up late with 

 Secretary James Wilson, Logan Waller Page and AUerton Cush- 

 man. I think that we were the last ones received. Secretary Wil- 



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