Nothing but its good exposition could have saved this paper "7 "7 

 from the fate of all such stock issues. A subtitle under the 

 main heading and some excursive pages helped further. In 

 these Wherry reported "on two cases of human glanders 

 occurring in Manila and some notes on the bacteriology and 

 polymorphism of Bacterium mallei." The facts brought forth 

 under the first half of the subtitle made surer the ground upon 

 which epidemiologists walked; those under the second, less 

 sure the foundations of species fixity. Again, as in the instance 

 of the cholera spirillum, it depended upon the nature of the 

 environment as to what form the glanders microorganism 

 would assume. As the culture medium was made more acid, 

 or contained a lower or higher concentration of common 

 salt, the "regular, very minute rods" ordinarily character- 

 istic, became "irregular, curved and sinuous" or "irregular, 

 branched, clubbed and vacuolated." 



January brought Wherry an invitation to head the serum 

 institute newly established in Siam. In February he had not 

 yet declined, believing that he might use it as a stepping stone 

 in his return to the United States via India. Wherefore he 

 wrote as follows: 



The physician-in-chief to the King of Siam, visited this place 

 some time ago and looked into our vaccine and serum work. 

 He has started such work in Bangkok, but has met with 

 unexpected difficulties. He begged Dr Freer to send him some- 

 one who could help him out. There is no one here who can 

 go, so I told Dr Strong that I would be willing to stop off 

 (on my way home) for a month or six weeks if they would 

 pay my way to Bangkok. I had just about given up the idea 

 of returning via India but if this scheme works out, I can 

 make it. 



By the end of the month the scheme had not worked out 

 but he had determined upon the India tour nevertheless. 

 He wrote: 



What I have decided to do is to stay here a month longer, 

 catch a Norddeutscher Lloyd liner at Hongkong, get off at 

 Colombo, go over to Madras, and thence by Bombay to 

 Karachi and up along the Indus River to Lahore and Ludhiana; 

 then back to Colombo, a round trip of about 5000 miles in 



