unearthed on the West coast, Stefansky's leprosy-like disease. ' 07 

 Total experience was summed up in April of 1 9 8 in an address 

 to the California state medical society. To add life to his words 

 he made a demonstration of plague's pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy. This address (a six-page paper! ) was not to see print until 

 later [20]. For future reference, one sentence needs quoting: 

 "Rabbits and squirrels are susceptible to inoculation but I am 

 unaware of an authentic observation of a natural epizootic 

 among them. ,, 



His catholicity of interest in every aspect of parasitism made 

 for correspondence and friendships with like-minded men 

 elsewhere in the world. At this time two, especially, were of 

 Wherry's circle — C F Baker (itinerant biologist to U S and 

 South American agricultural set-ups) and Henry Baldwin 

 Ward (of the dying race of "zoologists"; then in the univer- 

 sity of Nebraska in Lincoln) . What could they contribute to 

 the subject of fleas, the hookworms of cats, the larvae out of 

 the lungs of rats? Samples were going forward in separate 

 package. Ward (authority in this field) would like some of 

 Wherry's tape worms in exchange for specimens from him. 

 Whereto he added this advice, in March, that Wherry never 

 heeded: "Do not be so damned modest." Ward continued: 

 "Those specimens from a python would be very interesting, 

 and if you have parasites from other animals from the East, 

 or from humans, I should be particularly pleased." Hektoen 

 sent Wherry a receipt for his donation to the Fenger memorial 

 (he could again yield to such financial call) adding in his own 

 handwriting: "Dr Ophiils [pathologist of Lane medical col- 

 lege, newly christened the medical school of Leland Stanford 

 junior university] expresses himself as extremely well pleased 

 with your work. I hope 'they' will give you everything you 

 want." Whereafter he asked: "Have you found any instances 

 of sporotrichosis [it was a main field with Hektoen] in your 

 rats? They would interest me very much." 



Wherry's days were full enough, yet the autumn of 1907 

 filled them further. Over in the Pinole district, some twenty 

 miles north of Oakland, the Selby smelting & lead co main- 

 tained a plant. The business of stack fumes killing live stock 

 had come to the ears of the local ranchers and whispers for 



