of unexplained absences from chapel. Political science seems 1 1 

 to have caught his fancy, for he was "1" throughout — and, 

 of course, in the natural sciences. Physics he knocked down 

 with a "2" but chemistry, geology, biology, and anatomy were 

 all bagged with a"l." 



But more significant of the mind of the boy than this col- 

 legiate satisfaction of requirements for graduation were some 

 activities self-imposed of which none knew. They are evi- 

 denced in the notes added to his journal of exploration as his 

 college years brought him a Saturday or Sunday off. To Chi- 

 cago's dark Westside, he added the hills about Washington. 

 There began, also, the insertion of clippings into the ledger. 

 All concerned either the themes or the men of natural philoso- 

 phy. Their subject matter lacked no catholicity. "Bits" ap- 

 peared on general biology — bits on fact, or behavior, or 

 taxidermy — but they were followed quickly by essays on the 

 eagles of England, the quadrupeds of the Rockies (at once con- 

 temporary and prehistoric) and the woodland caribou of 

 eastern Canada. Here and there were articles on the signifi- 

 cance of the newly discovered temples of Mexico, the pygmies 

 of India, and the life of the lost Livingstone in Africa; also a 

 lot about the currents of the ocean, the storms above it and the 

 winds that blow out of forests on shore. There followed dis- 

 quisitions on the clouds, the comets and the meteors; and moon 

 maps. Along with these, precious notes on the newly develop- 

 ing science of bacteriology and its human significance. 



When Wherry entered college he was nineteen; but he knew 

 already that matters such as these were the sweat of men's 

 souls. Wherefore a third of his field book ended in biographies. 

 The list of his idols is too long to quote but if a catalogue of the 

 explorers, inventors and scientists that the nineteenth century 

 brought forth is handy, it may be set down as the equivalent 

 of Wherry's collection. 



The sources of the literary materials for this so private 

 library of his were various. Its most "expensive" acquisitions 

 were magazine articles but the major portion of his store had 

 been clipped from Indian or English newspapers — perquisites 

 of the office, no doubt, which the father had held in India. 



As time went forward the field notes matured; and to his 

 animal notes he now added the botanical. Of these a drawing 



