the Sisters appreciate laboratory work — the Mother Superior 1 Q^ 

 asked me the other day if her chickens ran any risk. 



His friend Woolley reported to him on the state of affairs 

 in the Manila laboratory (January 24, 1906) : 



I go to Siam on April first. . . . That 3000 is gold. You 

 know, I suppose, that Herzog is leaving, Musgrave given 

 notice of his resignation, Clegg and Will Young pulling out. 

 Clover leaves September and Jobling has been cabled for. 

 Sorrel leaves July. Tavern has resigned, Forbes is not com- 

 ing back, Timmy Smith is to be Governor and Gen Wood 

 Secretary of Police. Everyone has congratulated me and 

 asked me to keep my eyes open for them in Siam. . . . You 

 old Slob, why didn't you take up Theobald Smith? 



"Twenty degrees below zero" registered in middle March 

 brought Wherry much satisfaction. "This very cold weather 

 will do me a good turn, for they will not be able to kill so many 

 horses and I'll get a chance to get caught up." The Copper 

 company was, as a matter of fact, going into the business in 

 no superficial fashion. Wherry referred to it — with some 

 other things of importance — in a letter to me (March 16, 

 1906): 



... I am sixty dollars a month better off — with a definite 

 contract for a year. So this is where Little Willie gets a ring 

 next month and if you will stop off at Balto you may see some- 

 thing of what Amalgamated can do! ... I am sorry you are 

 not here now. They want a man awfully bad to do paraffin 

 section work. Don't laugh! . . . The fact is these people 

 don't know what they are getting into. Before they are 

 through killing, we will have tissues from several hundred 

 animals. 



A single day told of the "putting away of the tissues from 

 thirty animals." To Marie went the word: "You'll be inter- 

 ested to hear that the rabbit inoculated from the original crazy 

 horse I told you of in January, died a couple of days ago with 

 cerebral symptoms." Toward the end of the month Theo- 

 bald Smith arrived and made two autopsies. "I can tell you 

 they were careful ones," Wherry reported, continuing: "It is 

 a great treat to have him here for he knows so much and has 

 such a fine way of imparting his knowledge to others." The 



