"7Q the hottest season in India. As I know from experience, it 

 will be one perpetual Turkish bath but I feel as though I ought 

 to undergo the treatment. I hope you will be prepared to 

 see some changes in me. Woolley says he has never seen any- 

 one change so much in two years and insists that it is for the 

 worse. I admit it; and tell him that it is because I have lived 

 so long with him. . . . 



On the rumor that I was about to become a member of the 

 Manila enterprise, Wherry commented: "... It would be 

 very provoking to have Martin come out here just as I return, 

 for someday we are going to work together in the same 

 laboratory." He wrote me directly: 



... I would be glad to figure on returning here if it were 

 not for some of the officials whom I cannot or will not stand. 

 I wish that I could get back to the University of Chicago, 

 although I don't believe I can stand that climate any more. 

 My mitral stenosis has been bothering me lately and my 

 peripheral circulation is a peach. I mailed you one of my 

 bulletins a couple of days ago and trust that it won't make 

 you sick. I will be gone from here in a few weeks. 



In the last notes that he wrote from the Philippines (March 

 12 and April 1, 1905) he stated: 



This is the slowest month I ever spent in Manila. I am ready 

 to leave but cannot until the sixth of April. — Dr Lewis, our 

 physical chemist, and I bought a python, about ten feet long, 

 the other day. He was to have the skin and I, whatever I 

 could find inside of it. It was a profitable investment, for I 

 extracted a large bunch of intestinal parasites. The authori- 

 ties are pumping sand from the bay into the old city moat 

 and so have driven several interesting serpents from their 

 haunts. Don't you wish you lived in such a stirring locality! — 

 On the fifteenth of March a rat full of polar staining bacilli 

 was turned over to me and as no one has really proved the 

 existence of plague in rats in Manila, I got busy with the 

 examination. It was really a plague rat but I am not quite 

 through with the work, for during the study of five cultures, 

 I stumbled onto an easy method of staining the defensive 

 capsules of some bacteria. Prolonged staining with Wright's 



