QO teriologists (the only national scientific society which was to 

 honor him by election, or to which he was to remain attached 

 afterwards) . From "somewhere in the China Sea" he wrote: 



We left Manila Bay yesterday morning and reach Hongkong 

 to-morrow. On the twelfth I take the Prinz Heinrich. I'll be 

 very glad to reach Colombo, where I can telegraph my mother 

 and father, for I feel anxious lest they should have been injured 

 in the severe earthquakes they had in nothern India last week. 

 — I have been a chronic kicker in the laboratory as you have 

 no doubt surmised from my letters. And to be consistent, I 

 have always refused to attend any social functions given by it. 

 But on the fifth, the surprise of my life was sprung. It had 

 been announced that Wooster wished the laboratory staff to 

 assemble in the library to hear something important. I don't 

 love The Honorable, but deciding to be decent for once, I 

 assembled myself upstairs where the crowd was waiting for 

 The Secretary of the Interior, and sat down and crossed 

 my legs and looked bored. Then Dr Strong announced that 

 Wooster had been called away unexpectedly and proceeded 

 to say a lot of embarrassing things about me and presented 

 me with a gold watch from my fellow workers. I was so 

 overwhelmed I could only say a few disconnected sentences 

 in reply. You can imagine how proud I am of that watch! 



He next wrote from aboard the Prinz Heinrich in its ten- 

 day journey to Colombo. The following are excerpts from 

 his journal-like letter: 



April 13 , 1905 : I can sympathize with that Evil One when he 

 rose dazed after his fall from the Realms of Bliss. I had such a 

 good time in Hongkong; and third class on the North German 

 Lloyd is so extremely rotten. In Hongkong, Dr Koch kept 

 me on the go. He is municipal physician and I accompanied 

 him on his rounds to the Jail, the Civil hospital, and the Small- 

 pox isolation hospital which is on a houseboat in the harbor 

 off Kennidy town. There is little research going on but their 

 routine board of health work is well systematized — as it is 

 bound to be in a Service like the Colonial in which the appoint- 

 ments are ad vitam aut culpam. Plague has apparently died 

 out though they occasionally get an imported case. All their 

 smallpox cases were imported. — Dr Koch showed me slides 



