PREFACE 



WHEN William Buchanan Wherry died, a colleague 

 declared that fr the last and the greatest of the bacteri- 

 ologists of our period" had gone. Those who share this opin- 

 ion find the evidence in his scientific papers. But Wherry 

 had a hold upon the men of his circle {those of Cincinnati, 

 especially) not explained by the listing of his publications. 

 The fact has called forth this Nachruf . Seven hundred stood 

 at his funeral. They were not his relatives alone, but those 

 who made his city, his university, his hospital, his health board; 

 and a bereft conglomerate which could not otherwise declare 

 affection. It is for these that the incidents of the following 

 pages have been gathered together. 



Martin Fischer 



fc (L19RAR 



University of Cincinnati, 193 8 



In the Joseph Eichberg Laboratory for Physiology 



