1 Q the bluff. The Pacific Coast is the place where tropical medi- 

 cine must be taught in America. . . . 



In the bygone year Wherry had declined the direction of the 

 government serum laboratory in Siam. His Philippine col- 

 league, Paul G Woolley, head of the serum laboratory there, 

 then had taken it. Nothing but the restlessness of his soul 

 urged it, for his move to Bangkok changed his geographic 

 placement only. Since the friendship of the two was to have 

 much to do with the future of each, Woolley's gypsy spirit 

 deserves note. In a letter dated September 18, 1906, he drew 

 his own portrait. "Chief" was printed under his name on 

 new stationery. For the rest, his letter spoke his ever unhappy 

 mind: 



. . . hard at work starting this thing. When my two big 

 orders come from Germany, I shall have a fairly good working 

 establishment and shall be proud of it when I am not sick of 

 it. The worst is that I am so alone and with only the litera- 

 ture to talk with, I get morbid on the subject of my own 

 acquirements. I feel continually that I am back-sliding. 

 Alone, I don't think I can stand it for more than my contract 

 time. Can't you get control of a laboratory and take me in, 

 or will you come out here for what I am getting — 3000 and 

 a house? 



Two years later Woolley was to get command of just such 

 a laboratory and invite Wherry in. In the meantime Wherry 

 wrote: 



Just had a fine letter from Woolley. He is well fixed in 

 Phrapatoom. He seems to get all he wishes from the Prince, 

 who is backing up the lab's schemes. But he feels his isola- 

 tion very much. He wishes to know if I would come out for 

 three thousand a year and a house. I shall tell him to cheer 

 up and wait until we have built up the Oakland school and 

 then we may be able to offer him something there. 



For the rest of November in 1906, Wherry was chiefly in 

 Butte; and on the stand. "As usual I am very nervous under 

 such conditions," he said. But he had been promised that he 

 would be through and able to bid Anaconda good-bye by 

 December first, which made him glad. Another note of joy 



