"7 A no connection with the churches in Europe or America except 

 that missionaries may belong to either or to both." Express- 

 ing his pleasure over the meeting of Wherry with several of 

 the missionaries of the Philippines, he advised: "The only 

 regenerate Philippine Government will be a Protestant Gov- 

 ernment. Romanism has failed everywhere as a civilizer." 

 For the rest, there was still some fatherly advice to be given 

 the son: 



You are quite right to devote yourself solely to your profes- 

 sional duties. Social life can be relegated to a time when 

 circumstances will justify the luxury. You are also right 

 in denying yourself the ephemeral notoriety which affected 

 brilliance of research brings to some young men. It is better 

 to do one thing well than a hundred indifferently. The former 

 will endure. 



WHEN 1905 opened, though committed to the design 

 for early departure from Manila, Wherry was still in 

 doubt as to whether finances would permit him to travel west- 

 ward; and still at work scientifically. January 17, 1905, he 

 wrote: 



I have been working on a case of fever which did not resemble 

 typhoid clinically and yet would have been diagnosed such 

 by ordinary laboratory methods. Thirteen cultures of the 

 patient's blood yielded bacilli which resembled typhoid 

 excepting that they produced indol. The work is not com- 

 pleted but I think this organism will form a connecting link 

 between the typhoids and the paratyphoids. In connection 

 with this study and in confirmation of some work I did with 

 the cholera spirillum, I am investigating the influence which 

 nitrates exert on indol production. The bulletin on the cholera 

 spirillum was finished last August but I don't think you will 

 see it for some time, as my chief is getting even with me by 

 delaying its issue. 



The last item has been referred to. The Bureau had been 

 better pleased to bring out a more typical kind of government 

 report, entitled, Glanders: its diagnosis and prevention [#]. 



